Financial services companies rely and are based on technology. They spend big bucks trying to get it right, and often fail. Quilter, formerly Old Mutual and Skandia, has spent 6 years and £360m and still not been able to launch its new platform. So whoever is working on the NHS contact tracing systems, which will have been developed and ready to roll out to millions in the space of a few weeks, should be able to name their own price in the private sector. If they work. Which I’m sure they will. Won’t they?
“How can lifelong renting be made more compatible with retirement saving?”
Here’s a future problem that will doubtless be kicked down the road until it becomes a crisis. There’s a whole generation who may never be able to afford to buy their own homes.