partial transfers

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Aon has revealed defined benefit (DB) schemes are offering more support to members in their decision making at retirement, with one in five schemes now including personalised transfer value figures in retirement packs and making online tools available....

Motoring giant Ford has agreed to offer members of its UK defined benefit (DB) scheme the right to partially transfer their pension.

Partial defined benefit (DB) transfers are easier than trustees think and all schemes should offer them, XPS Pensions Group says.

Steve Webb says as schemes may have to invest in systems to generate regular transfer values, offering valuable partial transfers shouldn't be too burdensome.

This week we want to know if DB members should have a limited legal right to do a partial transfer and whether there has been enough innovation in the drawdown fund market since April 2015.

Pension schemes should rethink their approach to defined benefit transfers in response to high demand since Freedom and Choice, writes Kim Kaveh

This week's top stories include experts warning that trustees must act now on common and conditional data as the deadline approaches and calls for partial transfers DB transfers to be a right. Here are the top five.

With DB transfer activity at very high levels amid fraud concerns, Michael Klimes asks if partial transfers can offer more security for members