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  • James Jones-Tinsley: Aiming for an advice-guidance sweetspot

    As Nikhil Rathi is reappointed as CEO of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for another five years, the FCA has set out its strategic direction for 2025/26, with important implications for financial advisers.

  • Lisa Webster: Divorce impact on lump sums raises question

    The lifetime allowance may have been consigned to the annals of history but the various forms of protection are still relevant in the new world, especially when it comes to the amount of pension commencement lump sum (PCLS) that can be taken.

  • Martin Tilley: How education can tackle pension scams

    The dark reality of pension scams is that we don’t really know how common they are. Fraud is a crime which tends to have low reporting events and with pension scams, it’s no different. The emotional toll can be as large as the financial, with some people being too embarrassed to report that they have been the victim of a scam.

  • Lisa Webster: Maximising protected tax-free cash

    While 2024 ended with a lot of doom and gloom in the pension world following the big announcement on inheritance tax (IHT), there was some good news that may have slipped under the radar of some advisers.

  • Lisa Webster: Overcomplicated rules are a threat

    It may be more than a year since the Lifetime Allowance was formally abolished but issues are still emerging from the mess made by rushed legislation.

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Unity SIPP, part of the failed PSG SIPP (PSGS) business, has been sold to Pathlines Pensions UK Limited, formerly London & Colonial (LCS).

Change management specialist Marc Harris has joined the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) as its new chief operating officer.

The financial services sector has seen a sharp fall in optimism since Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ first Budget in October, according to the latest quarterly CBI Financial Services Survey.

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned several advertisements for investment platform and SIPP provider Wahed Invest which showed US and Euro banknotes on fire.

Women over 55 will receive nearly £6,000 less in pension income annually than men while spending £1,200 more than their expected pension income each year in retirement.

Four out of five financial service customers are either very concerned or somewhat concerned about tax increases from the new Labour government, according to a new survey.

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