We don’t mean to sound condescending, but based on our experience after checking thousands of files, the most common suitability report errors are typing, spelling and grammatical.
The suitability report is a cornerstone of your advice process and promotes your brand and standards of professionalism. A suitability report that is poorly written, unchecked and not proof read is likely to include errors and hence does not promote your brand in a favourable light.
Using a tool like ATEB Suitability will eliminate to a greater degree such errors by storing standardised text centrally. You can also use a browser with a built in spell checker to check your spelling as you go.
Pension transfers – considering life cover
Alistair MacDougall Compliance 2015, Drawdown, FCA, Pension, Pension Transfer, PI, transfer
We have seen a very large number of pension transfer suitability reports since the introduction of the pension freedoms that came out of the Pensions Act 2015. Many of these displayed two common threads running through the recommendation. First, many of the clients apparently wanted ‘flexibility’. Second, those same clients wanted ‘control’. These two […]