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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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Today’s Queen’s Speech, at the state opening of Parliament today, has brought the Pensions Dashboard closer and unveiled a number of other measures.

One in three pension schemes have appointed - or are considering appointing - an IFA to give advice to members, according to data from pensions admins administrator XPS Pensions.

The number of customer complaints made to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) relating to defined benefit transfers rose by 44% in 2018/19.

Transfer valued endured a volatile September, according to the latest data from XPS Pensions Group.

Over 400 trustees and employers of UK pensions schemes attending the XPS Pensions Group’s annual conference last week believe they must “make a difference to climate change”, with 60% of schemes having already moved away from a traditional investment approach.

Private equity firm Epiris has completed the acquisition of James Hay and Saunderson House parent company IFG Group.

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