Since we are coming to the end of the transition year following the change to capital adequacy requirements we thought it appropriate to remind firms that the final rule comes into effect on 30 June 2017.
See our previous news article here /news/capital-adequacy-requirements/ for confirmation of what it will mean for your firm.
Put briefly – if your annual income is less than £400,000 your prudential requirement will be a minimum of £20,000 from 30 June 2017.



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 […]