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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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Andy Briggs, CEO of Aviva UK Life, is to take over as chairman of the life and pensions providers' association the ABI in October.

The Chartered Insurance Institute has unveiled a campaign to call on life, pensions and long term savings providers to back a framework of professional standards ‘underpinned by credible and robust measures.’

The total value of the UK’s pension savings is just 2% below its all-time high following the recent rally in financial markets, a report has concluded.

A former chairman of AMPS has died after a long battle with cancer.

A proposed £500 allowance to enable people to use their pension savings to pay for advice would be shunned by nearly two thirds of over 50s.

A director of a Sipp provider will travel day and night to complete a 100km trek this weekend as she helps a children’s charity – despite getting injured in training.

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