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Best Practice | 15 Feb 18
How was the British Steel pension scandal allowed to happen?
A damning report from the UK’s Work and Pensions Committee has blasted the actions of some financial advisers who acted like “vultures”, and who “bamboozled” British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS) members, raising questions about how this could happen in a post-RDR world?
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