Defined Benefit Pensions

Pension Works are one of the UK’s leading independent, Defined Benefit Advice specialists.

We support financial advisers by advising on your clients’ Defined Benefit pension transfers, whilst allowing you to retain the funds under management and receive up to 30% of our Full Advice Fee.

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About Pension Works

Our team of pension transfer specialists are fully authorised and directly regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Using industry-leading systems we provide high-quality, compliant pension advice to clients throughout the UK.

With ISO9001 accreditation and the Pension Transfer Gold Standard, we consistently strive to provide exceptional levels of customer service and compliance. Every single file is compliance checked multiple times to ensure that we only ever provide advice that is in the client’s best interest.

Pension Assessment

Our experts will assess your client's Final Salary pension and present the options to the client without jargon. Our advice will always be in their best financial interests.

Independent and
unbiased

Fixed, transparent costs

Pension Transfer Gold Standard

Our Fees

Our Abridged Advice service is free.

If the client proceeds to Full Advice our fees are as follows:

Fund Value	Fee
First £50,000	3%
All Remaining	2.5%
Minimum Fee	£2,495
Maximum Fee	£14,950

Fund Value Transferred	Fee Percentage	Fee
£75,000	Minimum Fee	£2,495
£250,000	2.6%	£6,500
£500,000	2.55%	£12,750
£1,000,000	1.5%	£14,950

Client Journey

Initial Engagement

At the start of the process we take the time to explain everything to your client, as well as issuing our Terms of Business and brochure, which includes an overview of our charges. If we have not already obtained a signed Letter of Authority, we will ask your client to sign and return this for their pensions.

Information Gathering

When we receive the signed Letter of Authority, we will contact the pension providers to gather any relevant scheme details.

Fact Find Meeting

Your client will be asked to watch our ‘Triage’ video and review a series of case studies. This provides even more insight to help them decide whether they wish to continue with the advice process. If they agree to proceed, their dedicated Financial Adviser will carry out a detailed ‘Fact Find’ meeting via telephone to gather as much information as possible about their financial life and talk in detail about their objectives.

Initial Advice

This Abridged Advice, is a shortened form of regulated advice which will determine whether a transfer out of your client's Defined Benefit scheme is unsuitable or unclear. This will be presented to them as an Initial Advice report.

Full Advice

If the outcome of the Initial Advice is unclear, your client is able to choose to proceed through to Full Advice. This will involve a full comprehensive analysis of their pension scheme, in order to deliver a personal recommendation. A full report will be issued to your client and an advice meeting will be held with their dedicated Financial Adviser. The outcome of the advice will either be for your client to transfer your pension or alternatively maintain their pension in its current place.

Transfer

Should a transfer be deemed suitable and your client wishes to proceed, we will issue them the required documents and facilitate the transfer. At this point, once our fee has been paid we will notify you allowing you to take over the servicing rights and therefore retain the funds under management.

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Alternatively, you can call us on 0800 756 1288 (Option 2) or email services@pensionworks.co.uk.