Tributes have flooded in for popular PFS PR manager David Booth who died suddenly recently of a heart attack.

Personal Finance Society staff and the wider profession have been shocked and saddened by the sudden death of the organisation’s popular PR manager David Booth.

The Personal Finance Society has recruited pensions experts and practitioners to help launch a new Pensions Advice Taskforce which will aim to provide “strategic leadership” and a voluntary code of professional standards for pension advice in the wake of the Pension Freedoms.

The Personal Finance Society has issued an updated good practice guide covering transfers from defined benefit to defined contribution pension schemes as it warned against bad practice harming the profession.