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Pension Advice
The service includes:
- Review of your current pension arrangements
- Testing your existing pensions against the lifetime limit
- Recommending contribution levels
- Review of tax free cash, death benefits, any guaranteed benefits, transfer values (where appropriate)
- Platform selection (e.g. Personal Pension, SIPP, SSAS)
- Portfolio construction, using a clear and transparent asset allocation model, based on your objectives and attitude to risk
- Annual pension review, including performance against objectives, and risk profile.
- Advice on retirement options and taking the benefits (annuities, unsecured income, phased retirement, alternatively secured pension)
- Unlimited contact by phone, e-mail, and letter.
- Valuations at any time on request.
The cost of the service is 0.5% of the pension value per year, plus an initial charge.
If renewal commission of 0.5% is paid to us, the amount typically paid by pension funds, then there will be no further fee to pay.