Energising pensions: How dashboards will drive engagement

Industry working towards 2019 deadline

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Emma Quinn examines how a pension dashboard service could help boost member engagement amid nationwide retirement saving complacency

It is widely accepted that millions of UK savers are simply not engaged with their pensions. This was thrown into sharper focus recently with the much-publicised comments from Andrew Haldane, chief economist at the Bank of England, when he said: "I consider myself moderately financially literate. Yet I confess to not being able to make the remotest sense of pensions." In 2014, Time magazine featured this prominent member of the UK Monetary Policy Committee as one of its ‘100 Most Influential People' in the world. When eminent individuals like Haldane make comments like this, it expose...

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