Comment: Remember the member in ETVs

Jenna Towler comments on the rise of the ETV

Jenna Towler
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The pages of Professional Pensions are rarely without news that another defined benefit pension scheme has closed to new members and more often to future accrual.

Now KPMG analysis of the enhanced transfer market which it says is the first of its kind suggests as many as 750,000 scheme members could transfer out of their DB plans in the next five to 10 years...

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