Why the pensions dashboard could raise more questions than it answers

The 31 October connection deadline was a 'starting gun rather than the finish line'

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Robert Holford looks at the pensions dashboard and says it could raise more questions for advisers...

Most of us have a bag at the back of the wardrobe we haven't opened for years. We might have several - an old handbag, a weekend bag, a tote filled with this and that, or even the old carrier bag full of other carrier bags. We drop things in, forget where we put them and rediscover them years later. It would be much easier to keep track of everything in one large suitcase.  Pensions aren't so different. A career of changing jobs can leave people with a collection of pots they've been given by employers over the years. Pensions dashboards promise to give savers an important step towards c...

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