Pension dashboard delays highlight importance of advisers

IFAs well placed to keep clients engaged with their pension saving

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Ahmed Bawa looks at the seemingly endless delays to the pension dashboard roll out and says the protracted process highlights the importance of IFAs

Most financial advisers I speak to are keen on the idea of a pensions dashboard, recognising the benefits that it can provide. Pensions are something of an opaque subject for clients at the best of times, not something that it's particularly easy to get them to engage with given the long-term nature of the saving. This is compounded by the difficulties that can arise in having a handful of different pensions in place, for example if the client has switched jobs a few times over the last decade and so has a workplace pension from each previous employer. Having a single dashboard whe...

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