As indicated in last week’s Newsletter, we will be running a series of webinars, starting late October, that will provide detailed explanation of the new rules around Pension Transfer Advice and how firms can satisfy these.
There will be three webinars, each lasting around 20-30 minutes, as follows:
- Part one
Overview of the rule changes
Contingent charging ban - Part two
Filtering
Information / Education (‘Triage’)
Abridged Advice - Part three
Considering the Workplace Pension option
Other rule changes
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 […]