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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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International SIPP provider STM Group has backed its chief executive Alan Kentish following his arrest in Gibraltar over allegations connected to a tax dispute and alleged failure to disclose the proceeds of crime.

SSAS provider Rowanmoor has been reappointed by Standard Life to provide administration for its small self-administered scheme (SSAS) portfolio for a 10-year term effective from 1 October.

Nearly half of Pension Freedom users say they fear running out of cash in retirement, according to new consumer research from SIPP and platform provider AJ Bell.

New investments in SIPPs fell by 13% in the second quarter of this year despite the boom in pension transfers fuelling growth in transfers to SIPPs.

Rowanmoor, the SSAS and SIPP provider, is offering a free Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) registration service for SSAS and Family Pension Trust clients to help with MiFID II compliance.

Pensions Minister Guy Opperman confirmed today that the Pensions Dashboard will go ahead despite slow progress and doubts in some quarters.

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