Webb affirms exchange exercise crackdown

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Pensions minister Steve Webb reaffirmed his crackdown on short-term cash incentives to delegates by revealing plans to bring forward a code of practice in May 2012.

Webb told trustee delegates he was committed to “drive out bad practice”, saying he believed enhanced transfer value and pension increase exchange exercises were only beneficial to a “minority” of ...

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