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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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Financial advisers say they are experiencing an increase in insistent clients disagreeing with their recommendations on defined benefit pension transfers.

Rowanmoor, the independent SSAS and SIPP provider, is waiving 100% of Rowanmoor SSAS new scheme and takeover set up fees between 1 October 2017 and 31 March 2018.

The Pensions Administration Standards Association (PASA), the independent body set up to improve pensions admin standards, is to launch a voluntary mediation service to resolve issues experienced by schemes during the transfer of pension schemes from one provider to another.

One in five adults (20%) who have retired in the last five years have admitted to struggling to cope with retirement. 

September saw a reverse of rising pension transfer values with average transfers measured by one provider dropping sharply over the month, falling by 4% from £240,000 in the first week of September to £230,000 by the end of the month.

The platform Hubwise has halved the cost of its SIPP plan, it says, and has reduced entry costs as the company’s chief executive lambasts 'unfair' high charges he claims are prevalent in the sector.

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