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Here is some good news for once - government is doing its job.

When it comes to reforming the savings and investment landscape here in the UK, I think we can genuinely say the powers that be have done a brilliant job, with the recent Budget the icing on the cake. If we look back over the past few decades, Labour, Conservative, and coalition governments have enacted a series of truly seismic changes: implementing SIPPs, forcing RDR on the industry, auto-enrolment, and now boosting the ISA limit as well as reforming pensions. We are beginning to see real signs of change, not least with pension companies reducing charges and fund platforms taking an...

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