Advisers concerned about impact of stock market collapse on pension drawdown - Vitality

‘Particularly in light of inflation’

Ayesha Venkataraman
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Almost a quarter of surveyed advisers saw a potential stock market collapse as the biggest threat to clients in drawdown, according to research by Vitality.

The investment provider surveyed 204 IFAs in February 2022 and found that, when thinking of client drawdown strategies, a stock market crash was the chief concern among 23% of them, twice as many as the 11% of advisers who said so in a similar survey in February 2021. Additionally, the research revealed 15% of advisers believe regulation is the biggest threat to drawdown, closely followed by sequencing risk (14%) and underestimating one's own life expectancy (14%). Justin Taurog, managing director of VitalityInvest, said: "According to our research, advisers fear that the biggest thre...

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