Advisers told to 'step up' with joined up strategies for different life stages

The warning from Maxine O'Hanlon, director of the retirement advisory organisation, comes as the latest Office for National Statistics figures today (18 January) show inflation remains at a worryingly high 10.5%. While this annual rate of the Consumer Prices Index is slightly lower than the 10.7% recorded in November, O'Hanlon warned that "relentlessly and sustained increased in prices" would see cost of living stay as a "painful issue for the foreseeable future". "Inflation isn't just ‘economic data'," she added. "For both workers and retirees it can be detrimental to their retiremen...