Armchair Critic: The damning verdict on Pension Wise

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Professional Adviser's Armchair Critic takes a look at the Pension Wise website, and can't quite believe what he is (and isn't) reading...

The Pension Wise website - www.pensionwise.co.uk - asks for feedback, so here's mine. It's not very good, not very good in so many ways. 1 Apart from a gratuitous cartoon at the start where a couple approach a blank signpost, it's almost entirely colourless. 2 With page after page of nothing more than text, it's unlikely to engage the reader. Yes it's a government site but why does it have to look like a set of instructions on how to fill in your self assessment form? 3 Gingerly stepping around the meaningless guidance/advice distinction, it manages to ensure continued disengage...

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