Resolution highlights priorities for Thoresen

In response to Otto Thoresen’s ‘Call for Evidence’ consultation, the research and policy organisation is calling for funding to be earmarked in the government’s Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) which is scheduled for later this year. It says it believes generic financial advice “is the key to delivering a step change in financial capability among UK consumers”, and suggests any national approach should be developed to coincide with the introduction of personal accounts in 2012. And it says if a national generic advice network is to be successful the Thoresen Review should focus on ...