Three things your clients may call you about this week …

DB transfers, pension fraud and a drawback of loyalty

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Here's our weekly heads-up on the stories that may have caught your clients' attention over the weekend …

‘Why will no-one help me cash in my pension?' A contentious subject that has been covered at length in Professional Adviser, this Telegraph article brings the final salary transfer debate into the mainstream. It informs its readers those who want to move their pension against the wishes of an adviser are called "insistent clients", and then maintains "dozens of Telegraph Money readers are being prevented from taking control of their money". One person quoted in the piece is 65-year-old Richard Austin, who claims that after months of searching he has been unable to find a financial adv...

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