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Thursday, 05 November 2015 09:58
Definition of financial advice 'dangerously blurred' - AJ Bell
Platform and Sipp operator AJ Bell is warning that the distinction between financial advice and other information or guidance services has become blurred and this is having two dangerous consequences.
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Thursday, 29 October 2015 11:29
AJ Bell urges crackdown on freedom-blocking pensions
In its response to the Treasury consultation on pension transfers and early exit charges, Sipp provider AJ Bell has called for all early encashment penalties that block access to the new pension freedoms to be scrapped.
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Wednesday, 21 October 2015 12:08
John Moret: Sipps – interest 'turn' still a cause for concern
Back in 2001 - when we almost succeeded with a MBO of the Sipp provider I was running (Personal Pension Management Ltd long since defunct) – I was questioned by the VC who was backing us about the sustainability of the interest “turn” that we derived from the pooling of bank accounts.
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Thursday, 01 October 2015 10:47
FCA to revamp pension rules to boost consumer protection
The FCA is to review its pension rules post the pension reforms to address the, “risks and challenges faced by consumers in the new retirement market.”
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Thursday, 17 September 2015 12:23
4,000 face 40% or higher pension exit fees
A leading pensions expert says the number of people found to be facing exit charges in a major FCA study is ‘significant’ - despite being lower than many might have expected.
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Wednesday, 16 September 2015 12:09
Pension reforms: FCA finds many firms refusing insistent clients
Nearly a third of firms have told the FCA they always refuse transfers from insistent clients.
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Friday, 28 August 2015 10:46
Troubled Sipp providers hold talks with Mattioli
A director at Mattioli Woods has confirmed his firm is holding talks with troubled Sipp providers and the FCA to look at possible solutions ahead of the revamped capital adequacy rules taking effect next year.
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Wednesday, 19 August 2015 09:11
John Moret: Latest debacle causes huge damage to Sipps market
I guess by now I shouldn’t be surprised at anything that emerges from the regulator on the subject of Sipps. There have been numerous well documented failures in the advice regime governing Sipps that it’s hard to believe that worse could follow.
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Monday, 27 July 2015 16:57
SSAS review service launches as firm warns over regulatory fines
Talbot and Muir has launched a free SSAS review service for advisers.
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Thursday, 23 July 2015 12:31
Whistleblowers make ten Sipp sector complaints to FCA
There were ten whistleblowing complaints about the Sipp sector in 2014/15, the FCA has revealed.
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