Simon Binney: How financial services must respond to FCA retirement outcomes paper

Three areas industry should consider

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The FCA's interim report on retirement outcomes is good news for financial services, writes Simon Binney, but there are three ways the sector needs to respond to set itself up for the future

As John F. Kennedy said "change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." There is no doubt that the pension sector has undergone significant change over the past couple of years with the advent of pension freedoms and regulation. The FCA's recent ‘Retirement Outcomes Review' looked at how the retirement income market has evolved since the pension freedoms were introduced in April 2015. While the report found that consumers have welcomed the pension freedoms, the market is still developing and firms and consumers continue to ad...

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