Mark Polson: The products already exist, now let's guide retirees

The products already exist, now let's guide retirees

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What retirement product providers absolutely must not do (but inevitably will) in the wake of the pension freedoms is look at which shiny new products they can bring to market, writes Mark Polson...

I've been learning about photography a bit recently, which is nice for me I suppose. Anyway, whenever I try something new, like photography or fatherhood, one of the things I like is finding out about the language of whatever it is I'm learning. One of my favourite photography terms is ‘bokeh'. It's a funny word, which sounds a bit like the Scots word ‘boak', which you can look up. What it means is the pleasantly fuzzy parts of a photo, usually in the background when you have something in focus in the foreground. When you're good at taking photos, which I'm not, you can control whe...

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