Category: Pensions
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Don’t request pension transfer values before speaking to a financial adviser.
A number of cautionary notes have been flagged up in the Technical Press warning members of Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (Final Salary Schemes) not to request pension transfer values before speaking to a financial adviser. Members of Schemes are being warned that there is a risk that individuals “get blindsided by a big number” when they get…
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The disappearance of the Cofunds brand name
Aegon is dropping the Cofunds brand name as it moves users onto an upgraded version of the platform. After acquiring Cofunds in August last year, Aegon has been working on integrating the platform with its Aegon Retirement Choices offering, bringing many of Cofunds’ features into ARC. The decision to dispense with the Cofunds branding puts…
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Waspi women should be given £15,000 each, Lib Dems say
The Liberal Democrats have called on the Government to correct the “injustice” faced by the Women Against State Pension Inequality Campaign by giving them £15,000 each. Stephen Lloyd, the Liberal Democrat spokesman for work and pensions says the Government should do so immediately. Lloyd argues successive administrations have failed to help women who are set to…
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Brexit and Diversification
Since the UK electorate’s decision to leave the European Union (EU), the past 17 or so months have been interesting ones, to say the very least, for UK equity investors, and none more so than for those of us focused lower down the market capitalisation scale. But the UK market is a diverse and internationalised…