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.

There has been a growing, and somewhat contentious, debate among Financial Planners and Paraplanners recently about the fairest way to charge clients. Despite years of regulatory intervention in the advisory sector it remains a surprisingly grey area.

Zurich has announced a platform price cut from January, reducing the platform fee by more than half for assets above £500,000 from 0.22% to 0.10%.