Using retirement bolt-ons to improve the member experience

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After five years of pension freedoms, occupational schemes are still not offering a full suite of retirement options to members. Sonya Fraser explores the retirement bolt-ons they could offer

A new era dawned for defined contribution (DC) pension savers on 6 April 2015 - compulsory annuitisation was abolished and the world of pension freedoms began. According to official statistics from...

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