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Martin Palmer, head of corporate pensions marketing for Friends Provident, hopes to see some better solutions for the pensions arena in 2010.

It would be all too easy to look back on 2009 as the year when things just got worse. I think we can all agree that the events of past twelve months have only eroded confidence in retirement saving and that (to date at least) there has been little done to increase the popularity of pensions. Some think it’s the use of the word pension that’s at fault and although I am inclined to agree that probably hasn’t helped, I think we need to look further than the label and I am determined to finish my last blog for the year on a positive note! Searching for the positive angle in pensions howev...

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