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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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The PLSA has welcomed news that the Government is set to publish draft legislation to ban pension cold calling - including texts and emails - in early 2018.

AMPS has paid tribute to leading Sipps commentator and former AMPS chairman Mike Morrison, head of platform technical at AJ Bell, who died unexpectedly at the age of 55 earlier this week.

Customers of the Financial Planning arm of London-based PK Group will be able to manage their own assets, including SIPPs, via an automated platform and gain access to previously unavailable products.

The Bank of England has today increased its base rate by 25 basis points from 0.25% to 0.5% - the first increase for 10 years.

Parmenion, the DFM and platform tech provider, has cut its initial fee and initial dealing charges to zero for all new business and top ups including SIPPs.

Pension specialist and SIPP provider Momentum Pensions has appointed Heather Smyth to the new role of group legal counsel.

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