The Government’s decision to bring most unused pension funds and lump sum death benefits within the scope of inheritance tax (IHT) from 6 April 2027 has provoked widespread criticism from across the pensions industry. Providers, advisers and trade bodies have warned that the change risks undermining confidence in pension saving and damaging long term retirement provision.

The headline story from Budget 2025 - in the pension world at least - was the plan to cap National Insurance relief for pension contributions paid through salary sacrifice at £2,000 a year.

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.

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

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.

The Financial Ombudsman Service has ordered pension specialist adviser Harbour Rock Capital to compensate a former client due to ‘unsuitable’ pension transfer advice.

The Society of Pension Professionals (SPP) has elected Calum Cooper, partner & head of pension policy innovation at Hymans Robertson, as its next president for a two-year term which began on 1 June.

The Society of Pension Professionals (SPP) has urged the Government’s proposed pension Value for Money framework to be directed to help savers, not just trustees, regulators and governance bodies.