Marilyn Cole: Could our pension dashboard hopes be dashed?

Figures pin down reality

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There may be a prototype website for both industry professionals and consumers that presents the details of all pensions held but, worries Marilyn Cole, there are growing signs the final dashboard may be less useful

We are growing a little fearful our hopes for the pension dashboard are going to be dashed. As a design and technology agency, Space has put a great deal of thought into the presentation of relatively complicated facts and figures - sometimes directly for consumers, sometimes for financial advisers to use with clients and, occasionally, for consultants in the investment market to use with institutional investors. In doing so, we have grappled with how to communicate effective narratives about - variously - pensions, investing, protection and mortgages, while setting the relevant numbers ...

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