Adviser Champions video discussion: The LISA's pros and cons

With Ros Altmann, Adrian Boulding & Tom Selby

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The Lifetime ISA (LISA) is a complicated product that could potentially lead to misbuying or misselling, argues Baroness Ros Altmann in this special Professional Adviser video roundtable discussion.

The former pensions minister (pictured above left) was one of a trio of retirement saving experts invited by Professional Adviser to come together in a special edition of its Adviser Champions video series to butt heads and occasionally agree about the prospects for LISA. Joining Altmann to thrash out the merits and shortcomings of the newly available savings product were Dunstan Thomas director of policy Adrian Boulding and AJ Bell senior analyst Tom Selby (respectively third from left and far right), with the session chaired by Professional Adviser editor Julian Marr. On the questio...

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