Defined benefit pensions What is a Defined Benefit pension? What are my options? How will my pension provide for my retirement? Any decisions you make about your Defined Benefit pension will affect the income it will provide for the rest of your life – so its important to understand how it works. What is a [...]
If you’re considering transferring away from a Defined Benefit (final salary) pension, you’ll need to request a cash equivalent transfer value (CETV) to help you find out whether or not you would be better off in or out of the scheme.
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It’s now common for people to have multiple pensions. How can you find details of lost pensions or investments without searching in the attic for the paperwork?
Wren Sterling has signed up to the Pension Transfer Gold Standard, a new mark of quality in the pension transfer market awarded by the Personal Finance Society (PFS).
Investments made through pension wrappers have reached a new high of £13.4bn in the third quarter of 2017, up 66.3 per cent on last year.*
The figures showed the amounts coming into pensions through transfers was particularly high. For instance, transfers into self-invested personal pensions (SIPP) more than doubled over the past 12 months to reach £1.9bn.