Pensions dashboards: A threat or opportunity for advisers? 

Now just six months until dashboards project goes live

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John Parker looks at the much-anticipated arrival of the pensions dashboard and explores the opportunities for advisers to act on clients' behalf...

It's now just six months until the pensions dashboard launches and the question for many advisers is how best to engage with it on behalf of their current clients and prospects. It's fair to say that barring any significant issues, the dashboard will be launched with some fanfare. We can therefore assume that many scheme members will take an interest, if only through curiosity. And this ‘curiosity' presents both an opportunity and a threat for advisers. Assuming that everything goes to schedule with the dashboard, the state pension along with large master trusts; and most personal and...

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