Adrian Boulding: What to expect from the Retirement Outcomes Review?

'Simplicity in the face of complexity’

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With the long-awaited Retirement Outcomes Review final report expected to be published within the next month or so, Adrian Boulding offers his thoughts on what it could include

Within the next month or so, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is set to publish its long-awaited final report from the Retirement Outcomes Review, which follows on from February 2014's TR14/2 Thematic Review of Annuities and its aftermath - the Retirement Income Market Study (RIMS) published in March 2015. RIMS uncovered a number of issues relating to consumer decision-making on decumulation following the introduction of the pension freedom reforms first announced in the 2014 Budget. It specifically demanded: * Annuity quotation comparisons so that, when a customer has decided to...

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