Advisers have crucial role to play in boosting pension awareness

Plenty of would-be savers have switched off from pensions

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Advisers are the frontline of tackling the pension saving knowledge gap, writes Ahmed Bawa

The recent Pension Awareness Week was an important moment in the financial calendar for me. It served as a useful reminder of the need to keep flagging the importance of saving for old age among clients, irrespective of the primary reason they might have come to a financial adviser.  Indeed, the research around this year's edition shows that there's an awful lot of work to do when it comes to helping clients understand how pensions work, and the role they will have to play in their later years.  A problem for another day Advisers won't need me to tell them that understanding and eng...

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