I was hoping any major developments in the pensions world would happen while I was away in Germany, so I could come back to work when all the hard stuff was over.
My wish was not rewarded, instead while I was sampling the beers in Munich while on my way to a birthday party in Bavaria (a typical journalist’s jetset lifestyle, what can I say!) the pensions world seemed to have ground to a halt. Imagine my relief when I came back last week, thinking at last people have gone on holiday and we can relax, but no, instead the first thing I look at, (after the daily torture of the market report), is the subject of pension transfer values as responses to a consultation by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) came flooding in. After that slow start, ...
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