The FCA will shortly be asking a sample of Insurers, Price Comparison Websites and Insurance Intermediaries to complete a short survey to assess their preparedness for the introduction of the new rules on general insurance pricing practices as outlined in the recent Policy Statement.
The survey will be sent to firms on 16 July 2021 from the following mailbox: GIPricingPractices@fca.org.uk
Firms will have 15 working days to respond and in any case responses should be made by no later than 9 August 2021.
Pension Transfers – considering a workplace pension
Alistair MacDougall Compliance Defined Benefit, FCA, Pension, Pension Transfer, PI, Switch, transfer
We recently reviewed a pension transfer report where the client was recommended to transfer out of the defined benefit scheme into the client’s pre-existing SIPP. We considered that the recommendation to transfer appeared to be appropriate. However, the client had what the FCA calls an ‘available qualifying scheme’, more commonly referred to as a […]