Pension liberation: Is early intervention and information sharing key?

The National Lead Force for Fraud recently revealed its detectives had entered a London office with 40 call centre staff, arrested three people and seized computers and documents. The operatives were suspected to be cold-calling and text messaging UK pension holders with incentives to unlock their pensions early. Pension liberation is a growing problem, and with more boiler room operations like these, the police and associated fraud investigators are on the move. Liberting funds generally involves a request by a pension scheme member to transfer assets from a legitimate scheme to a...