The annual charges on AJ Bell’s range of six passive multi-asset funds have been cut to 0.35%.

Platform and SIPP firm AJ Bell has called for annual platform charges to be disclosed in pounds and pence.

Towards the end of last year I was invited to sit as part of a panel at a conference - a discussion on defined benefit pensions.

I make no apologies for the fact that ‘phoenixing’ seems to be a regular topic in the industry press – a quick search of the internet brought up no end of articles on the subject, going back over a number of years.