Ros Altmann could struggle to make her mark as pensions minister as ‘political oxygen' for further pension policy reforms is extremely limited, a consultant has said.
At a joint event with REFORM think tank, Cicero Consulting, director and chief corporate counsel Iain Anderson, has called for the oversight role of HM Treasury to be enhanced in the new UK regulatory framework.
Cicero Consulting has announced the five firms in the running for its UK retail 2008 Platform of the Year Award.
Just hours after the general election outcome, Roger Harding, of Cicero Consulting, sets out how the new government is likely to influence financial services.
Roger Harding, associate at Cicero Consulting - parliamentary consultancy to financial services companies - analyses the election manifestos of the three main parties and reveals what he thinks they really mean.
Consumers want to access their pensions savings in the event of unemployment or illness and would like to see some of simple risk indicator on financial products, according to a joint investigation.