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Ten years ago this month the then-chancellor announced the most dramatic reforms of private pensions for a generation. “Let me be clear,” George Osborne told the House of Commons. “No one will have to buy an annuity.” A decade on, however, many pension specialists wonder whether pension freedoms, as the policy was subsequently dubbed, is all it’s cracked up