Mike Morrison takes stock of pension freedom and its impact on the retirement sector. More than a year after launch he believes we are just getting started...
Funny how, when faced with a blank piece of paper, you can be hijacked by the first information that you see on the day. So today I have unexpectedly ended up back on the topic of pension freedom. In the last year or so we have started to get data on who has done what, how much money has been taken out and in what form. My thoughts at the time were, "all well and good but let's wait until we get some client views - more subjective data as opposed to objective". In many of the pension sessions that I have done over the last year, I have prefaced my talk by asking the audience how t...
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