Nucleus sets up DB transfer expert panel to help advisers

Adviser insight

Jenna Towler
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Platform Nucleus has established a panel of pension experts to help the adviser community get to grips with defined benefit (DB) transfers.

DB transfers continue to be a contentious area for advisers. The British Steel pension scandal has cast a shadow over the role of financial advisers in final salary pension transfers plus the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has been cracking down on the market in recent months.  Nucleus said it wanted to bring together the leading experts in the field to give advisers insight into the market and how to approach DB transfers.  The panel discussed what advisers are currently seeing in the market, the FCA's response to the increase in demand, how advisers should engage in DB transfe...

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