AVCs - Invest or Divest
Barbara Cole looks at the issues trustees need to bear in mind when dealing with AVCs.
AVCs have a strange recent history in the story of UK pensions. First offering the facility was optional: then compulsory: now it is optional again. Along with this compulsory/ optional story there...
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