Hitting trustees with a big stick

Henry Tapper says the government must stop passing the buck for combatting fraud to trustees

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The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is putting increasing pressure on trustees to investigate the schemes to which money is being transferred and police pension liberation fraud.

But trustees also have an obligation to facilitate transfers and help "pot to follow member". Not all occupational pension schemes are the same; there are good ones which provide workplace pensi...

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