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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published guidance on advising defined benefit (DB) transfers and has reiterated its stance that it is best savers do not transfer out of final salary pension schemes.
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has outlined how firms should better understand vulnerable customers and how businesses must act to improve outcomes for those clients.
Henry Cobbe: Retirement in focus – pathways, PROD and proposition
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FCA starts High Court action over DB transfer advice failings
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Justin Corliss: Why are drawdown transfers few and far between?
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Kim Jarvis: In advisers we trust
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SOLLA and Just Group update adviser vulnerability training
A popular adviser training module focused on client vulnerability has been updated to incorporate latest regulatory guidelines and information on the Covid-19 pandemic.
Failed Liberty SIPP racks up almost 1,700 FSCS claims
Collapsed self-invested personal pension (SIPP) provider Liberty SIPP has received 1,696 claims against it, according to the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS).
FCA denies 12 advice firms authorisation following phoenixing suspicions
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has clamped down on consumer investment harm and prevented 12 firms from gaining authorisation following suspicion of phoenixing in the first 10 months of 2020.
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