ABI appoints long term savings director to tackle pension reforms

Laura Miller
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The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has appointed Yvonne Braun to head up the trade body's long term savings policy, which will include how the industry deals with the incoming pension reforms.

Braun was previously the ABI's head of savings, retirement and social care. The trade body said she has led its policy development and implementation on high-profile long-term savings issues such as the Office for Fair Trading review of workplace pensions, automatic enrolment, care funding, and most recently the Budget reforms of pensions. In his Budget last March, Chancellor George Osborne announced a radical overhaul of how people will be able to use their pensions, giving them greater freedom to access all of their money at retirement. Providers - many of which are ABI members -...

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