Liz Coyle: Paradise by the pension dashboard light?

No leeway for another unfulfilled promise

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Is the pension dashboard going to prove a dream come true for consumers and advisers - or an unachievable nightmare for those tasked with pulling the data together? Liz Coyle addresses some of the key questions

Since the concept of the pensions dashboard was first raised in 2015, it has attracted a great deal of interest from the adviser community. Now the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has published its recommendations for the dashboard, the question is whether it is going to be a dream come true for consumers and advisers. Or an unachievable nightmare for those tasked with pulling the data together. With the system due to go live in 2019, here are four big questions people are asking about the dashboard: * What are the potential stumbling blocks for the dashboard? In common with t...

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