Advisers, have you transferred out of your DB pension(s)?

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Take part and have your say in Professional Adviser's weekly poll, which gathers the thoughts and opinions of readers on a number of issues; the results will be published in a week's time.

The defined benefit (DB) transfer market is shrinking as the risk of advising on them increases and results in substantial professional indemnity costs. However, advisers themselves often have DB pensions from time spent working for life companies and others in the past.  This week's poll, which you can take by visiting here, centres around the behaviours in the DB transfer market of advisers themselves: we want to know if you have transferred out of a scheme.  The votes in the poll are anonymous; readers can also leave comments. Comments left alongside the poll may be quoted in the u...

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