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Mark Polson looks at freedom of movement between wrap platforms

The debate around re-registration on wrap and fund supermarket platforms tends to be more visible in the specialist investment press than in the retirement press. However, the truth is that the issue affects customers, not products. We all know now that retirement does not necessarily just equal pensions in terms of product solutions, and so the retirement savings market is just as affected by this brake on the free transmission of capital as the rest of the retail investment market. If we substitute the word 're-registration' with 'in specie transfer', we can start to draw lines with t...

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