John Lawson to chair retirement council

The council provides independent opinions on personal and corporate pensions and other long-term savings issues. Martin Campbell, founder of communicationa company Beacon Strategic, has become deputy chair of the council, which also includes Ian Naismith, head of pensions market development at Scottish Widows, and Adrian Boulding, wealth policy director at Legal and General. The council launched last November and will hold a conference in the autumn. Lawson says: “If you go to the ABI or IMA, you get a view and you know what that view is going to be as it’s a vested interest. This is n...