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  • Tilley: Rebooting the FOS makes sense

    I’ve written before about the lack of coherence in the UK’s pension complaints landscape and it remains a source of real frustration for those of us working in the sector.

  • Lisa Webster: Pension age uncertainty lingers on

    We’ve known for many years that normal minimum pension age, NMPA it's known, is going up.

  • Tilley: Are we asking too much of pension savers?

    Working in UK pensions, I’ve always accepted that the system evolves. Fiscal pressures change, demographics shift, and governments recalibrate policy objectives. But even allowing for that, the pace and volume of legislative change in the pensions space over the last few years feels unprecedented, and in my view increasingly problematic.

  • Lisa Webster: Beware IHT and pensions double taxation

    One of the most disliked aspects of bringing pensions into the estate for inheritance tax (IHT) purposes from 6 April 2027 is the double taxation that will occur when the member dies on or after their 75th birthday.

  • Lisa Webster: Should tax-free cash always be taken?

    Since the Lifetime Allowance was abolished and replaced with the Lump Sum Allowance (LSA) and lump sum and death benefit allowance (LSDBA), we have seen an increase in SIPP members who want to take drawdown only – foregoing the right to take the associated pension commencement lump sum (PCLS).

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A new report has revealed the best countries in Europe for retirees.

New figures published today by HMRC show that a total of £30bn has been withdrawn ‘flexibly’ from pensions, taking advantage of the new ‘pension freedoms’ introduced in 2015. 

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) intervened in the running of the London Borough of Barnet Superannuation Fund and says the scheme is now running more “effectively”.

Trade association PIMFA, which represents 1,000 investment managers and financial advisers, has called on the FCA to “raise the bar” instead of banning contingent charging.

A nursery and its main director are to be prosecuted by The Pensions Regulator (TPR) for trying to avoid providing their staff with a workplace pension.

40 million UK adults are “rolling the dice” when it comes to their retirement, admitting that they either have not or did not set savings targets for their retirement.

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