Penfold hires team to launch adviser portal and service

Specialists to tackle advisers’ ‘frustration at sector’s slow adoption of tech’

Julia Bahr
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Digital pensions provider Penfold has introduced an adviser portal and service for business advisers including accountants, payroll bureaus, IFAs and employee benefit consultants.

To launch the new service and to outreach to accountancy and payroll bureaus, the firm has recruited a specialist team. Steve Ayers, who previously led private banking at Lloyds Banking Group before supporting the launch of Smart Pension, was joined by Terry Kemp, previously at Creative Benefits and Smart Pension and also Michael Groves who formerly worked at both Smart Pension and digital pension provider Cushon. The Penfold portal and accompanying service hopes to streamline and simplify the process of managing pension schemes on behalf of small- and medium-sized businesses and the fir...

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