Pensions freedom: The future's bright, the future's blended

It's been around three months since George Osborne's brave new pension world was introduced (with apologies to Aldous Huxley). While this gives people much greater flexibility in how they can access their retirement savings, as with all things in life there are likely to be winners and losers. It is clearly early days, and it will be many years before we understand the full impact of these sweeping changes, but there are some indications of how the market is developing. Much of the media coverage over recent weeks has been around the ‘dash for cash', those people wanting to cash in...