Are defined benefit transfers worth the risk for advisers?

Are defined benefit transfers worth the risk for advisers?

Scott Sinclair
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A lot has been written about the impact of the pension freedoms on final salary pension savers.

With defined benefit savers unable to take advantage of the retirement reforms without transferring to defined contribution schemes, are advisers seeing an uptick in transfer requests, or has the expected trend been overblown? In this exclusive video debate, Scottish Widows pensions expert Robert Cochran, flanked by financial planners Dennis Hall and Carl Lamb, attempt to answer the important questions to emerge from the retirement revolution...

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