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Best Practice | 27 Jun 18
Experts unite to set up Pensions Advice Taskforce
The UK’s Personal Finance Society has formed a taskforce to help provide strategic leadership and a voluntary code of professional standards for pension advice.
Generali doubles up in India
Italy’s Generali Group is increasing its stakes in two insurance joint ventures in India to 49% up from 25.5%, “underscoring its commitment to growing its presence in the local insurance market”.
Where has £17.5bn of pension freedoms money gone?
About £3bn ($3.9bn, €3.4bn) that has been flexibly withdrawn from UK pensions is currently sitting in low yield bank accounts, with investors facing the “double jeopardy” of tax on withdrawals and low returns, according to research by AJ Bell.
European pension plan’s ‘elephant in the room’
Europe is still not dealing with the tax treatment of Pan European Pension Products in its latest compromise deal to push the contentious product forward, the secretary general of a European lobby group has warned.
Unlimited fines and jail for reckless DB scheme providers
Powers that would allow the UK’s pensions regulator to give unlimited fines and criminally prosecute reckless behaviour in relation to defined benefit (DB) pension schemes are being considered in a government consultation paper.