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How the FCA’s default investment options will affect advisers and providers

  • Explain the aim of new rules on non-workplace pensions
  • Understand exemptions to the rules
  • Understand how to design option and the cash rules
CPD
Approx.30min

Providers have to follow the new workplace pension rules, but they also have to consider them through the consumer duty lens.

That might mean testing communications, and it certainly means being clear on who exactly the default investment option has been designed for, that it is competitively priced, and that it is reviewed regularly.

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It is the provider’s responsibility to make sure it is, and continues to be, appropriate.

Rachel Vahey is head of policy development at AJ Bell

CPD
Approx.30min

Please answer the six multiple choice questions below in order to bank your CPD. Multiple attempts are available until all questions are correctly answered.

  1. What are the two objectives of the rules on non-workplace pensions?

  2. Why does the FCA want to improve outcomes for those at the accumulation stage of non-workplace pensions?

  3. True or false, providers also have to include the default investment option on any menu of investments in a position “most likely to bring it to the attention of clients".

  4. What are the exemptions to the new rule?

  5. What does the FCA say providers should take account of when designing their default option?

  6. Which of the following is NOT one of the factors providers need to establish when they assess customers every three months on the amount invested in cash?

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  • Explain the aim of new rules on non-workplace pensions
  • Understand exemptions to the rules
  • Understand how to design option and the cash rules

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