Just Retirement launches simplified advice for life company customers

Carmen Reichman
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Just Retirement has launched a simplified advice service for providers to offer to their clients at the point of retirement.

The group, which owns intermediary business Just Retirement Solutions, aims to  contract life companies to refer their clients to a new telephone-based retirement advice service. The service is designed for clients with "simple, straight-forward needs" and savings of between £30,000 to £40,000, said group external affairs director Stephen Lowe (pictured). It's aimed at life companies that want to ensure their pension savers are more actively engaged in the decision-making process at retirement while passing on the responsibility for the regulated advice, he added. Charging structur...

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