Outlined profit switch values fell by greater than a 3rd final yr as investor issues over UK debt drove gilt yields greater, in accordance with new evaluation.
Pension consulting and admin agency XPS Pensions Group mentioned switch values fell 36% over the yr.
Its Switch Worth Index fell by 4% in December because of vital rises in UK gilt yields.
Gilt yields climbed sharply all through 2022, reflecting buyers’ issues in regards to the impression of inflation on the nation’s financial system and the prospect of a extensively predicted recession in 2023.
As switch values fell, demand for transfers additionally dropped in 2022, the corporate mentioned. Common switch exercise throughout the yr was 44 members per 100,000, down from the 62 per 100,000 in 2021.
There was additionally a big improve within the variety of transfers being flagged as exhibiting potential indicators of a rip-off. Nearly 9 out of ten – 87% – circumstances in 2022 confirmed rip-off ‘warning flags’, up from 52% the previous yr.
That was largely all the way down to new laws launched in late 2021 which, amongst different issues, required that any switch going right into a automobile with abroad investments raises a rip-off warning flag.
Throughout December 2022, a minimum of one potential rip-off warning signal was recognized in 93% of the circumstances reviewed.
Mark Barlow, head of member choices, XPS Pensions Group, mentioned: “Switch values have plummeted over the past yr, which might be a explanation for concern for a lot of. Nevertheless, it’s reassuring that, as but, we now have not seen a sustained pattern of extra members transferring resulting from cost-of-living pressures.”