Money Marketing’s most-read stories – March 2022

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Aviva to purchase Succession Prosperity for £385m

The story that excited our viewers the most this thirty day period was Aviva’s move to acquire countrywide IFA Succession Wealth. The deal for a whopping £385 suggests Aviva now has the potential to provide tips to around 4 million office prospects.

Succession Wealth has close to 200 planners advising on £9.5bn of belongings offering assistance to all around 19,000 clientele during the British isles.

Aviva British isles and Eire Lifestyle main govt Doug Brown mentioned: “This acquisition will broaden our guidance giving and will assist our current prospects now without the need of an adviser to better secure their fiscal future.”

FCA puts ban on Hartley Pensions investing

Occasionally a business you suspect has issues does not show them for years. This was the situation with Sipp service provider Hartley Pensions. The Economical Conduct Authority has stopped it from conducting any new business.

Hartley Pensions is regarded for acquiring the guides of collapsed Sipp administrators above the past several many years. These have included Guinness Mahon Believe in Company, Lifetime Sipp Enterprise, Berkeley Burke and GPC Sipp.

Hartley Pensions can no extended have out controlled things to do and will remain in location until finally the FCA is pleased it can be lifted.

Paul Lewis: Funeral fallout

Our star columnist Paul Lewis is not a fan of funeral strategies or funeral administrators. Final yr two regulators stepped in to tell the business to clean up its act.

First the Opposition and Markets Authority advised undertakers to display their charges clearly and in a standard format so clients could review a single with another.

Now the Monetary Carry out Authority is on their situation. Lewis miracles if it will make a big difference.

WTW criticised around ‘shocking’ pension strategies administration   

Pensions administration is not a glamorous topic, but it is important to the payment of pensions. Our reporter Momodou Musa Touray bought this tale where pensioner savers and advisers slammed Willis Towers Watson more than its “shocking” administration of place of work pension strategies.

Advisers painted a picture of a scheme administrator plagued by persistent issues of its personal creating. It has joined a escalating checklist of directors struggling with grievances more than their treatment method of pensioners and the advisers supporting them.

Abrdn reports clone agency on Providers Residence sign up to FCA 

Scammers like cloning organizations, specifically large models. Abrdn verified to Cash Internet marketing the existence of a clone firm in the sign up of Firms House.

It told our reporter Jean Baptiste-Andrieux who acquired the story:

“We are knowledgeable of this distinct clone company and we have suggested the Monetary Perform Authority and built official software to the Organization Names Tribunal.”

The existence of this clone enterprise was very first brought to our notice by Mark Taber on Twitter.

Quilter programs to pilot hybrid offering by close of the 12 months

Quilter never appears to end expanding and has laid out strategies to pilot its hybrid tips proposition in direction of the end of this year.

The group’s main govt Paul Feeney told Dollars Internet marketing the giving will achieve out to a “much wider group of people”, who do not at present have accessibility to, or can not manage, advice.

“People have trumpeted robo assistance for yrs now,” he claimed. “But it is not about person versus device. It is about gentleman with device.”

Tilney Smith & Williamson to rebrand as Evelyn Partners

Rebrands can be challenging so perfectly carried out to Tilney Smith & Williamson for finding it appropriate. This new title is rooted in the company’s heritage and attracts back again to Evelyn Gardens. It is the London deal with from which one particular of TSW’s founders pioneered the enlargement of the small business in 1893.

It will rebrand as Evelyn Associates in the summer months because of to the consolidation of its manufacturers.

Home owners get environmentally friendly increase with VAT cut

Homeowners in search of to increase the electrical power performance of their attributes have been specified a increase in the spring statement after VAT on electricity preserving supplies was scrapped.

HMRC figures a ‘car crash’ for women’s state pensions

Previous pensions minister Steve Webb has claimed the newest HMRC figures on Little one Gain signifies a ‘slow motion car or truck crash’ for women’s state pension entitlements.

The HMRC figures confirmed that the quantity of family members saying Kid Profit has fallen for the ninth yr in a row, from a peak of 7.92m in August 2012 to 7.09m in August 2021.

“Without these credits, gals could be dropping thousands of pounds in retirement revenue,” Webb mentioned.

Clerical Healthcare under hearth for ‘appalling’ customer support  

Pension and expenditure provider Clerical Medical (CM) is experiencing criticism for its “poor” buyer company and “appalling” remedy of purchasers.

Funds Promoting spoke to several offended prospects who are reporting quite a few problems with it.