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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 Financial Ombudsman has ruled against an advice firm over investing in an unregulated collective investment scheme.

The development of the Pensions Dashboard has been one of the big pension related stories of 2016 – with the Treasury signing up eleven of the largest pension providers to build the first prototype of its kind in the UK.

A new study has found that more than one in ten drawdown customers regret their decision.

As the world marks Equal Pay Day today, Aegon’s head of pensions Kate Smith says women are being hit by a double whammy on pensions and pay.

Six more providers have signed up for the Pensions Dashboard initiative which will aim to give consumers a central point to monitor all their pension arrangements.

Bristol-based Hargreaves Lansdown has called for mandatory annuity rate transparency and says the ABI should reinstate ‘annuity window’ rate tracking.

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