Implementation: Getting to grips with the long-awaited pensions dashboard

Increased engagement should result in more informed retirement planning

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Dom House explores how the advice profession should prepare for the implementation of the pensions dashboard project (first announced ten years ago…)

In January, it was announced that roadworks on the A465 in Wales were due to complete this summer, a mere 23 years since the work began. Just to bring that into context, the biggest financial news of that year (2002) was the introduction of the euro as coins and banknotes - following three years as an electronic currency. The pensions dashboard can't quite compete with that record, with current timelines suggesting ten years since the initial announcement, however, we're now on our sixth pensions minister since then. With the expectation that the pensions dashboard will begin the f...

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