pension transfers

All defined benefit (DB) pension transfers after 6 April will be regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to ensure mandatory advice has been taken and fully understood.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has floated plans to allow providers to bulk transfer members from legacy schemes to more cost efficient models.

An eight day turnaround for pension transfers should become the industry standard, the TISA Exchange (TeX) organisation has said.

Labour will continue to push through developments on an automatic pension transfer system if it wins the next general election, it has been confirmed.

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Axa is introducing faster pension transfers as part of a number of service upgrades to its Secure Advantage range.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has confirmed the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will this autumn propose reforms to the system of transferring small pension pots.

Practicing financial advisers will not have to sit further examinations if the FSA increases the qualification standards for pension transfers.

The FSA noted a jump in advised sales of personal pensions in 2010/11 compared with the previous year, and said this could reflect pension switching, a practice it pointed out some firms had failed to carry out appropriately in the past.