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PO determination on failure to consider right to transfer to pension liberation scheme (Stobie PO-3105)

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Published on: 08 January 2015
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Article summary

Pensions analysis: In Stobie (PO-3105), a Self-Invested Personal Pension (SIPP) provider failed to consider whether a member had the right to a discretionary transfer to a suspected pension liberation scheme. Martin Scott of gunnercooke LLP looks at the decision.

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