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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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New pension investments (excluding transfers) soared by almost a quarter in 2016, rising from £14bn in 2015 to £17.4bn, suggesting a recovery in pension savings.

A pensions dashboard prototype was unveiled today, as a 24 hour contest began between 20 developers to create the best design.

Charles Counsell, an executive director at The Pensions Regulator, has been named the new Money Advice Service chief executive this morning.

A well known former adviser and trainer of advisers has been handed a nine year disqualification.

A report on the pensions awareness of Britain’s under-35s has exposed widespread ignorance of the pensions freedoms, two years on from the changes.

SIPP provider Liberty SIPP says it has nearly doubled the value of its assets under administration in the past year, breaking through the £1bn mark for the first time.

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