Winners Gallery: Global Financial Services Awards 2019
Photos of the winners and gala dinner Click through the slides below to see who triumphed!
Sovereign
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Sovereign Group partners with Praemium
New and existing personal and corporate pension schemes will be moved onto the platform
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Sovereign brings insurance services to Malta
Gibraltar-headquartered firm provides policies for high net worth individuals
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Sovereign secures new Hong Kong licences
Gibraltar-headquartered firm already holds 31 licences around the world
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Sovereign acquires Gibraltar book from Concept
Sovereign Group has acquired the pensions business of Concept Trustees (Gibraltar), including all of the pension schemes under the Aurora Europa brand, from Concept Group.
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Sovereign Group cuts fees on Rops
International pensions provider Sovereign Group has removed ‘ad hoc’ transactional fees from all its new and existing recognised overseas pensions scheme (Rops) products.
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Sovereign expands into Sipps with MW Pensions deal
Sovereign Group, an international wealth management and retirement planning provider, has acquired UK-based MW Pensions, a specialist in Self-Invested Personal Pension (Sipp) schemes, for an undisclosed amount.
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Sovereign offers flexi-access drawdown from its Malta Qrops
Sovereign Pension Service in Malta has announced that it will offer flexi-access drawdown under its local Qrops scheme with immediate effect.
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Overseas advisers offered access to support on DB transfers
QROPS provider Sovereign has teamed up with Alexander Beard to give overseas advisers access to the FCA-regulated advice now required for transfers out of defined benefit schemes.
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Gibraltar QROPS operator accountability set to rise
Gibraltar QROPS operators could see their responsibilities as a trustee extend to include the due diligence of overseas financial advisers and the risk classification of policyholders in their schemes, under proposals from the jurisdiction’s regulators.
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LDF two thirds down on target as
The Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility (LDF) has raised little over one third of its £3bn target yield with just over one year left until it is closed
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qrops industry reels from budget pension changes
Radical changes made by the UK Government last week lifting a number of tax restrictions on UK pensions have raised concerns in the QROPS industry.