Legacy pensions tech creates 'enormous risk, costs too much and underserves clients'

'Our industry is famous for thinking in decades, but customers will not wait that long'

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The pensions industry is failing customers through both apathy and fear of change, and the window for action is closing fast, argues Jonathan Hawkins

Dinosaurs. Blockbuster Video. Nokia. Kodak. AOL. You? As a Saturday boy at WH Smith (known by the City as ‘WH Smug') in the 1990s, I recall watching the business turned upside down overnight by book market deregulation and the rise of the supermarkets. Complacency killed market dominance faster than anyone anticipated.  Just like Blockbuster and Kodak, firms that ignore change, fail to evolve and neglect their customers go to the wall or get eaten by competitors. We're living through the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), yet much of pensions and financial services relies on out...

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