Compliance

• What HMRC vs Staveley means for adviser clients

  

  How HMRC will interpretation death benefits in respect of IHT where a pension transfer takes place, in the light of the recent ruling in Staveley vs HMRC

• Unravelling FCA Policy Statement PS18/20 – Pensions Transfers

  

  ATEB Consulting’s Steve Bailey looks at the key points in the FCA’s ‘Improving the quality of pension transfer advice’ paper

• Are advisers overlooking a SSAS opportunity?

  

  Clients dissatisfied with the running of their SSAS is an opportunity for advisers to help and thus build a valuable relationship with this group HNWs, says Matthew Storey, business development manager, Xafinity SIPP & SSAS

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• Dealing with new FCA rules on pension transfers, conversions and opt-outs

  

  ATEB Consulting’s Steve Bailey looks at what is expected in respect of the FCA’s latest rules on pensions transfers effective this month.

• When pension transfer triage becomes regulated advice

  

  ATEB Consulting MD Steve Bailey looks at the practice of transfer triage and where it could cross into regulated advice from the FCA’s perspective

• Firms with pension transfers permissions can expect to hear from the FCA

  

  Risks brought in by pensions freedoms are under the FCA spotlight as the regulator carries out the final element of its four phase transfer advice supervisory project, says ATEB Consulting’s Steve Bailey

• Pension switches: 4 essentials to stay compliant

  

  ATEB Consulting’s Steve Bailey analyses a recent FOS case and the compliance issues it flagged around pension switches

• Advising on DB transfers: the income sustainability hurdle

  

  DB pension transfer advice has much in common with drawdown advice but with a fundamental difference, says Alastair Black, head of Financial Planning Propositions, Adviser & Wealth Management Propositions, Standard Life

• Tangible Moveable Property – what you can and can’t hold in SIPPs

  

  Geoff Buck of DP Pensions, explains the rules around Tangible Moveable Property and why SIPP operator’s err on the side of caution

• Discrepancies in how HMRC deals with errors

  

  You’d expect broad consistency in how HMRC allows errors to be fixed. Wouldn’t you? Gareth James, head of technical resources at AJ Bell, looks at the different handling of pensions and ISA errors

• How many hats can a regulated Supervisor wear?

  

  The role of regulated supervisor is a complex one which requires support, especially for those new to the role, says Apricity MD Cathi Harrison

• Why we don’t agree with the PFS view on insistent clients

  

  ATEB Consulting director Steve Bailey explains why the firm believes advisers should not be taking a blanket approach to insistent clients

• There’s a better way of doing compliance

  

  Cathi Harrison, managing director of Para-Sols set up her new company Apricity to change the way compliance support is delivered for adviser firms, she tells Rob Kingsbury