Adrian Boulding: Financial services cannot ignore the ageing population

FCA released ageing population paper to tackle issue

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Adrian Boulding assesses the FCA's strategy on the ageing population and says it is "vital" advisers and providers face up to the challenge...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has unveiled its 68 page Discussion Paper (DP) on the ageing population with a view to publishing its strategy in Q2 2017 - just over a year from now. It's a mighty tome with the great and the good working within retirement product providers, mortgage providers, regulators, trade bodies, as well as ‘behavioural architects' and psychologists. As you would expect with the mix of people that have had standalone papers published within this DP, their views and concerns are varied. However, common to many of the pieces is the view that right now we ...

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