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Pension advice suspended at Nationwide Building society Nationwide has stopped offering pension advice and withdrawn its stakeholder product because it cannot facilitate adviser charging. A spokesman for the lender said any customer requiring financial advice on pensions would be assessed and referred to website Unbiased if they needed further assistance. It confirmed the L&G (UTM) Stakeholder Pension, available through branch advisers, has been withdrawn as it cannot be made Retail Distribution Review (RDR) compliant. To read more click HERE Consumers increasingly ‘shopping ...

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