Major risk as billions of AE pots could be invested in external funds

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Money being channelled through an insurer's platform into external funds under auto-enrolment could put members' pensions at risk if the fund provider went bust.

Standard Life has raised concerns that insurers cannot underwrite the billions of pounds of AE money being invested into external fund links, and has already turned down companies who wish to use c...

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