MICHAEL MARCHANT: No accountability at Liberty Life
After hounding out the whistleblower who exposed Liberty Life’s disastrous pension fund cancellations programme, the insurer has sat on its hands
23 January 2020 - 05:00
It is extraordinary to see how pension industry insiders leap to defend insurance behemoth Liberty Life for its scandalous handling of the unlawful cancellation of hundreds of pension funds.
A recent investigative report by Open Secrets, "The Bottom Line", revealed how Liberty accounted for 80% of the funds cancelled in an unlawful and error-strewn "cancellations process" run by the then Financial Services Board (FSB) up to 2013. Our report distinguished between the broader R50bn problem of unpaid pension benefits, and the worrying case of the pension funds cancellation...
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