As we near Halloween and reach the twilight of our journey, we thought this might be appropriate.
Without wanting to scare the living daylights out of you, could your suitability reports come back from the grave to haunt you sometime in the future?
Over the many years that we’ve worked in this industry, there have been countless episodes of retired advisers being chased by the FSCS, lawyers or ambulance chasers.
The best defence you have is a robust client file and of fundamental importance is a fit for purpose Suitability Report.
We leave our journey from A – Z therefore by imploring you, whether or not you use ATEB suitability, to ensure that your suitability reports are of the highest possible quality.
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 […]