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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it wanted to force people to take specialist pension transfer advice if they were considering moving out of a DB scheme.
Charles E. F. Millard, director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, said the pension transfer was "exactly what we have been urging all along".
It now wants to do so, and to introduce a requirement that the advice must come from someone with a pension transfer qualification.
"But take care, as if you are doing a large pension transfer, for example, as a one-off transaction, your IFA could be receiving 6% of your fund for just six to eight hours work," says Martin Bamford.
The pension transfer process descended into chaos as unscrupulous financial advisers, charging large fees, flooded into the steel heartlands of south Wales and the north of England in a bid to persuade workers to transfer their retirement pots.
Despite the plea by Mr. Millard, the pension agency director, that the pension transfer to G.M. go forward before the Sept. 30 deadline, Delphi's creditors expressed little interest in speeding up that transaction if it meant a delay in their bigger chess game over how Delphi would operate in the future and how its resources would be divided among creditors.
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AW A Pension transfers are a bit of a minefield.
However, the pension company Aegon reports that eight out of 10 requests for overseas pension transfers that have been brought to its attention are scams to defraud savers.
Meanwhile the government will shortly publish its formal response to the Pension Transfers and Exit Charges consultation, which also looks at ways of making the process for transferring pensions from one scheme to another quicker and smoother.
The new duty, introduced through legislation, will form part of the response to the government's Pension Transfers and Exit Charges consultation.
Our results show that, while public health care and pension transfers are remarkably biased against women at old ages, public education transfers are essentially gender-neutral even at the tertiary education level.
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