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The latest FCA statement on the new capital adequacy rules strengthens the view that commercial property is, in most cases, a standard asset, a pensions expert says.
The FCA has published what it called ‘minor changes’ to its new capital adequacy rules this afternoon – with one expert saying the original proposals had been ‘watered down’.
Sipp inflows for January to September increased by nearly £3bn compared to the same period last year, according to data which covers 90% of the UK’s leading life and pensions companies.
Several advice firms are braced for FCA punishments after consumers were advised to switch their mainstream personal pensions into Sipps through ‘improper delegation’ to unauthorised firms.
A consultant has swapped Sipps firms by making the move to Talbot and Muir from Xafinity.
Transfers into Sipps are up 36% over the year and transfers of pensions into drawdown products doubled since April, new analysis released this morning has shown.
Women could be faced with a significant retirement shortfall as the gap between both attitudes towards saving and savings levels widens with men as they get older.
James Hay has added 11,000 Sipps in the first 10 months this year – nearly double that of the whole of 2014.
SSAS sales at Xafinity have risen every quarter this year, the firm reported, with about a typical year’s worth coming in just six months.
Origo, the e-commerce standards and services body for the financial services sector, has signed up Talbot & Muir as its 75th brand for the Options Transfers service.
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