Fidelity seeks retirement specialist for profile push

Carmen Reichman
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Fidelity is looking for a head of retirement insight to strengthen its profile in the UK retirement market.

The role will be Fidelity's key spokesperson on retirement issues in the UK post-pensions freedom and choice. Fidelity said it wants to build a "market-leading profile" in the UK and is looking for someone with "technical expertise" and an "accomplished communicator of that expertise". The firm currently offers an advised retirement service as well as a direct-to-consumer guided service. It lost one of it key retirement spokespeople in July, when Alan Higham left the firm after just 18 months. Higham, who joined Fidelity when it bought out his Annuity Direct operation in 2014, s...

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