Mark Polson: Legacy tech 'can't or won't cope' with pensions freedom

I've been poking around legacy technology a bit recently, partly because it beats interacting with human beings and partly because it's important at the moment. The main reason it's important is that the ability of your clients to access their pensions in the way they want, when they want, is principally constrained by what those old green-screen mainframe systems can do. CLOAS, Unisure, Life400 – they're all still around, hiding in dark corners of lifecos and squinting nervously at the light if you shine a torch at them. And such a torch is indeed being shone at the moment. The re...