The Single Financial Guidance Body (SFGB) was created to take over the obligations previously provided by three organisations, namely …
- The Money Advice Service
- The Pensions Advisory Service
- Pension Wise
… bringing together for the first time the provision of debt advice, money guidance and pensions guidance.
Initially launched on 1 January 2019, the body will formally commence under its new name of the Money and Pensions Service (probably to be referred to as MAPS) from 6 April 2019.
Further information can be found on the (SFGB) website.
The MAPS website will be here and is due for launch by 6 April.
Suitability reports – silver bullet, or not?
Paul Jay Compliance, Suitability DB Pension, FCA, MiFID, Pension, Pension Transfer, PI, transfer, Xplan
If you ask most advice firms which part of the advice process consumes the most time, most will reply: “Suitability Reports”. Based on the mammoth documents that some firms still produce, we can understand why. We do have some sympathy with firms though. On the one hand they’re told by the FCA that reports are […]