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 transfer advice – assessing transfer risk
Alistair MacDougall Compliance 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021, DBAAT, Drawdown, FCA, Pension, Pension Transfer, PI, transfer
It has been well publicised that the FCA has aimed increasingly close scrutiny in the direction of firms that have been providing advice in relation to defined benefit pension transfers. Apparently caught off guard by the then Chancellor’s introduction in the Pension Schemes Act 2015 of what are generally called ‘pension freedoms’, the regulator has […]