I opened my first ever pension with PensionBee last week and I’m genuinely impressed so far. The sign‑up process was quick, clear, and completely stress‑free — ideal for someone who’s never had a... See more
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PensionBee helps you combine your retirement savings into a new online account, which you can manage from the palm of your hand. We’re a global leader in the consumer retirement market with over $7 billion in assets on behalf of more than 300,000 customers. Founded in 2014, we aspire to build pension confidence so that everyone can enjoy a happy retirement. PensionBee accounts are invested by the world’s largest investment managers, collectively looking after more than $10 trillion in savings between them. Each of our customers has a personal account manager (“BeeKeeper”) to guide them through their savings and retirement journey. We have an “Excellent” Trustpilot rating based on over 10,000 reviews. As a public company, we aspire to the highest standards in everything we do because our customers deserve peace of mind. Our team of over 200 pension professionals, based in London and New York, has one focus: you, our customer. When investing, your capital is at risk.
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- Be pension confident. Combine, contribute and withdraw online. All in one place.
- Manage your pension from the palm of your hand: check your real-time balance, see your projected retirement income, and set up contributions and withdrawals online
- Use the PensionBee Pension Calculator to set a retirement goal and top up your savings to get on track.
- Your personal BeeKeeper will be on hand to look after you and your pension, from sign up to drawdown.
- Our pensions are managed by some of the world's largest money managers – State Street, HSBC and BlackRock.
- Pay just one fair and transparent fee between 0.50% to 0.95%, depending on the plan you choose.
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209 Blackfriars Road, SE1 8NL, London, United Kingdom
- 020 3457 8444
- contact@pensionbee.com
- pensionbee.com
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Very helpful and quicker than I…
Very helpful and quicker than I thought. Someone always replies if I Sen an email basically the next day if not th same day.
Easy to reconvene from a previous…
Easy to reconvene from a previous enquiry made a year before.
PensionBee
PensionBee, has a lot more to offer then just combining.
There’s lots of tips and information on how to improve your future.
I think it’s a great app.
A big thank you to PensionBee for their…
A big thank you to PensionBee for their help in retrieving my pension for me, they have made a near impossible task easier and they sorted everything out for me. I certainly would recommend them they were fabulous, thanks again PensionBee.
Very helpful
They managed to get a bit of pension from an external company despite of the problems encountered.
It was a nightmare - but that was all due to the other company which I won't name.
From the first phone call to my pension…
From the first phone call to my pension being transferred over everything went as smooth as possible. I was informed about every step that was taken
Not as responsive as I was led to believe
I switched to pensionbee as my previous pension providers weren't as IT friendly. I moved 3 pensions across so that I could amalgamate funds prior to taking 25% tax free lump sum and putting the rest into drawdown.
The 1 pension went through very quickly, but I had to chase both parties to transfer the other 2, who were with the same company.
Both pensionbee and Utmost were blaming each other for the slow down of the transfer and I had to get involved myself by telephoning utmost and then communicating with pensionbee and found that it was pensionbee who were at fault. After I told them exactly what needed to be done to transfer, they eventually did it. Great I thought, this should be smooth....
Oh no. I was told the funds were being transferred which takes 3-5 working days. I had to again email my beekeeper to ask what the hold up was... no reply, to find the funds miraculously had cleared.
So today, I have tried to do my first withdrawal thinking this is it, finally get the money as I turned 55 last October. Yet another issue. Have to upload my bank details and facial similarity checks.
Takes me to a website - I take a photo of my passport and a "selfie" - all good, so I upload.
I then get an error message on screen "Finish verifying your details.... we were unable to verify your identity or bank details. Please try again. Once these are confirmed, you can start withdrawing from your account"
When I refresh, I get the same message. Come out of the webpage and log back in and go to the withdrawal page - same message straight away, so I am unable to verify any details.
As this system is supposed to be a "quick" way of being able to withdraw, it's far from it. So I go onto the chat and speak to someone, who doesn't appear to be friendly in her responses.
Tells me the team are currently looking at manually verifying the details - huh? Why?
I just feel this is just another delay tactic as I followed the commands exactly and uploaded what was required. The person made it seem as though this process was being completed immediately and I should get an email pretty quickly. Over 3 hours later, still waiting - how long does it take to look at a passport photo and compare it to the selfie?
I have now emailed my beekeeper again to hurry tings along, but as there has been no response to my last email, I don't hold much hope of this one being answered quickly either.
I looked on their page and was taken to a youtube video which basically states that I will get another email asking me to do the process again. I thought the process was supposed to be easy, but I'm finding it not to be at all. Once they have verified my identity, it'll take another 10 working days (at least) to transfer the money. I was hoping to have this all done before going away on holiday in 2 weeks, but seeing as I started this whole process in February, it isn't a quick process.
excellent service with great ease of…
excellent service with great ease of use. Super easy to set up, super reliant with details and information.
I love the ethical options
I was looking for a pension to use through my own company for employer contributions. I also ideally wanted something that was ethical, and so I found the Shariah pension option through PensionBee. It was easy to set up online and I requested to transfer an older pension into the new PensionBee one so I don't have to remember details of the old pension. So far it's been a really good experience.
An easy and smooth process
An easy and smooth process! All i had to do was to provide my pension policy number and company- pensionbee did the rest!
Moving my pension was quite seamless
Moving my pension was quite seamless. Had right level of communication and the transfer completed all right.
Great service
Great service, popped in my details and everything was completely quickly.
Now I can view my pension pot when ever I need on the useful app.
Excellent customer service!
The transfer of my old pension policies…
The transfer of my old pension policies to PensionBee was smooth with no issues.
Very responsive and helpful all the way when describing the process.
Transirion of pensions
Transition from other pensions so far has been very easy & simple process
I gave pensionbee my details and they…
I gave pensionbee my details and they found all my pensions and sorting them out for me
Found my old pension with ease..
Found my old pension then managed to transfer the funds to my new workplace pension and earnt me a little interest in the process.
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