TPR's proposal to ban transfers to SSASs branded 'radical' and 'worrying'

Michael Klimes
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The regulator's call to ban transfers to small self-administered schemes (SSASs) to help crack down on scams has received little support from the industry.

In a blog published on 14 January, The Pension Regulator's (TPR) executive director of regulatory policy Andrew Warwick Thompson wrote SSAS should not be recognised as a safe vehicle to transfer to...

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