Copia hires ex-TISA policy director Malcolm Small

To raise decumulation awareness

Hannah Godfrey
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Copia Capital Management, the investment management division of Novia Financial, has appointed Malcolm Small as a special adviser for retirement.

Small (pictured) will join Copia on 19 June from the Retirement Income Alliance, which he set up in 2015 to help the public navigate pension freedom. He has also worked as a policy director at TISA, the Tax Incentivised Savings Association, and a policy adviser on retirement at the Institute of Directors. Small will work alongside Henry Cobbe, Hoshang Daroga and the Copia team to support the development and outreach of the Copia retirement income propositions launched earlier this year. In February, Copia became the first discretionary fund manager to launch a range of managed portfol...

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