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60% of UK wealth manager’s customers getting “unsuitable advice”?!?
This arrives in an email from my friend Per Andelius. It refers to the FCA thematic review that can be found here. It’s a brilliantly written article and if anyone knows its source, please send it me, as I would … Continue reading
Pension transfers – are they worth it?
Britain is in great need of advice on transfers between one pension and another. This doesn’t just mean transfers from defined benefit schemes to defined contribution schemes, it means support in transferring pot to pot transfers for DC arrangements. Unless … Continue reading
Posted in pensions
Tagged advice, adviser, Business, DB, DC Defined Benefit, defined benefit schemes, Employment, FCA, Financial Conduct Authority, Financial services, Guidance, National Employment Savings Trust, occupational pension, occupational pension schemes, pension, Pension new, pension playpen, Professional Adviser Neil MacGillivray, Retirement, Scheme, Transfer
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Good news from the Regulators
It has been an important week for the regulation of workplace pensions. Not only have the DWP published the rules that govern workplace pensions qualifying to be used for auto-enrolment, but the FCA published – … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, corporate governance, corporate risk, dc pensions, Employment, FCA, fiduciaries, Financial Conduct Authority, Financial services, Financial Services Authority, fund managers, Government, Independent Governance Committees, Insurance, Investing, Investment, Investment management, National Employment Savings Trust, pensions, Pensions Regulator, Retirement, Steve Webb
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How low can guidance go?
The FCA have published an important document that sets out to define where guidance ends and advice begins. Thankfully , it’s one you can read without feeling guilty that you aren’t going to answer 150 consultation questions! The FCA has … Continue reading
Posted in advice gap, FCA, pension playpen, pensions, Pensions Regulator
Tagged advice, Decision Tree, digital, DWP, FCA, Financial Conduct Authority, financial education, Guidance, Guidance Guarantee, Pension Wise
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Has Webb scotch’d the commission snake – or killed it?
All the advisers needed to do was to make promises. They did not have to keep them. Continue reading
Posted in annuity, Fred Goodwin, pension playpen, pensions, poetry, Treasury
Tagged Employment, FCA, Financial Conduct Authority, Financial services, Office of Fair Trading, OFT, pension, Steve Webb
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