Comment: Err on the side of trust

Jonathan Stapleton analyses a member's right to choose

Jonathan Stapleton
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Incentive exercises - such as enhanced transfer values and pension increase exchanges - have been provoking strong reactions for at least the last five years. But should they be as controversial as they are?

This week, pensions minister Steve Webb has again vowed to clamp down on companies offering a "bung of cash" to staff who give up defined benefit pensions - warning the Department for Work and Pens...

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