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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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Work and Pensions Committee MPs have backed the FCA’s Retirement Outcomes Review but warned that progress on reform was “glacially slow.”

TRIG, the Transfers and Re-registration Industry Group, has published a new guidelines framework to help improve the transfer and re-registration of ISAs, pensions and investments.

XPS Pensions Group, the recently enlarged SIPP, pensions and consulting business, has reported total revenue for the 12 months to March increased by 27% from £52m the previous year to £66m.

The Financial Conduct Authority may introduce a cap on drawdown charges as it announces a package of measures to trackle potential 'harm' from the Pension Freedoms. 

Selectapension is set to launch a new tool called APTA with a Transfer Value Comparator next month.

The European Court of Justice has ruled in favour of a transgender woman who was denied access to her pension.

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