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Pension Protection Fund- Carillion
The Pension Protection Fund will step in to protect those 28,000 members of the Carillion DB schemes as part of the assessment process once the liquidator is appointed to the …
Independent Financial Advice- Expats
Search the internet and you will find numerous websites that offer independent financial advice to expats. But are they offering independent financial advice?We find that many expats did not get …
Final Salary Pension Sign Offs
Are final salary pension sign offs actually advice about pensions or just sign offs? There is a difference. The Chartered Insurance Institute ( CII ) has recently issued all its members …
Tailormade’s Yearly Review | 2017
Happy New Year and all the best for 2018 from everyone at TailorMade Pensions. What a year 2017 was for us, and we hope it was good for you as …
Happy MiFID II Day
Today is the launch date of MiFID II MiFID II is to ensure fairer, safer and more efficient markets and facilitate greater transparency for all participants. More information about MiFID II …
EU Passporting
A recent article in International Adviser about EU passporting caught my eye. This was a case where the FCA have admitted that UK resident consumers may struggle to understand how …
Pension Scams- what you can do to avoid them (Part 2)
This is the second part of the blog about Pension Scams and what you can do to avoid them. Pension Scams- what you can do to avoid them (Part 1) …
What are ‘Packaged Retail Investment and Insurance-Based Products – PRIIPs’
Packaged Retail Investment and Insurance-Based Products – PRIIPs Packaged retail investment and insurance-based products (PRIIPs) is a broad category of financial assets that are regularly provided to consumers in the …
Shell Pension Scheme
The Shell Pension Scheme, the non-UK scheme being the Shell Overseas Contributory Pension Fund, seems to have become a target for pension scammers and poor advice. We outline some simple …