1 X Safeguarded Rights Pension Transfer and/or Flexible Drawdown or Full Cash In (UFPLS).
What Are Safeguarded Rights? Pension schemes that have a monetary unit value are likely to be Company Money Purchase Schemes, Personal Pensions, Stakeholder Pensions, Buy Out Schemes, Group Personal Pensions or other similar but some also have guaranteed rights built in to them such as Guaranteed Annuity Rates or Protected/Higher Tax Free Cash Lump Sums - these are known as Safeguarded Rights.
When people are considering giving up guaranteed elements we are required do a full Transfer Value Analysis and cash flow modelling exercise to ensure you will have enough secure income in retirement.
We will gather detailed pension scheme benefits information from your existing scheme trustees. Conduct a full, FCA (regulatory) prescribed, pension scheme and comparison analysis, where applicable: These are known as an Appropriate Pension Transfer Analysis (APTA) and a Transfer Value Comparator (TVC). We will conduct an initial review of your pension, secure all information from scheme trustees and establish the feasibility/suitability of the scheme for retention or using Pension Transfers as a solution and then advise whether it is in your interests to transfer or not. This will include critical yields returns needed, a scheme funding review, scheme rules, revaluation rules whilst 'frozen', increases when pension income being paid, any history of discretionary benefit improvements or not, your health, longevity, marital status, future projected income, expenses, cash flow needs and other overriding factors that may influence the decision to transfer or not. All documented in a full written report for you.
Pension Scheme Transfer: We will write to the existing pension provider, research, report and review contract terms and benefits to give our view on its competitive position and compare against others for potential transfer. Compare pension scheme against others for pension transfer to a lower charged, transparent pension or self-invested personal pension scheme charging structure. Including transfer application documentation and paperwork for the proposed applications, including implementation to completion and acceptance of terms. To provide you with the details of all quotations and then undertake all of the paperwork necessary in order for benefits to be placed in a scheme. To provide you with a confirmatory report of the actions taken, including your own stipulations and the provider chosen for your pension.
Flexible Drawdown (FD) or Full Cash In (UFPLS): If the requirement is to also partially encash some of the pension using ad-hoc or regular withdrawals then flexible drawdown will be used. If you require a cash out of the whole pension fund as an Uncrystallised Fund Pension Lump Sum (UFPLS) then we also deal with this process for you. Both FD and UFPLS routes will include dealing with HMRC in connection with any withheld taxes and tax refunds in full or in part depending upon your tax position and country of residence.
Annuity: If the requirement is for an alternative annuity whilst giving up safeguarded annuity rights, we will conduct in depth research and analysis on annuities (or consolidate into 1 if more than one). We will compare the maximum annuity income available from the open market with the annuity income rate offered by your existing pension(s). It will include full research and a schedule of suggested annuity contracts including product type recommendations and provider recommendations and rates. Application forms, lump sum release forms and any other pension transfer and 'open market option' forms will be handled by us and we deal with all aspects of your application to completion.
Fees are made up of two parts to make up the total fee: