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  • James Jones-Tinsley: Aiming for an advice-guidance sweetspot

    As Nikhil Rathi is reappointed as CEO of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for another five years, the FCA has set out its strategic direction for 2025/26, with important implications for financial advisers.

  • Lisa Webster: Divorce impact on lump sums raises question

    The lifetime allowance may have been consigned to the annals of history but the various forms of protection are still relevant in the new world, especially when it comes to the amount of pension commencement lump sum (PCLS) that can be taken.

  • Martin Tilley: How education can tackle pension scams

    The dark reality of pension scams is that we don’t really know how common they are. Fraud is a crime which tends to have low reporting events and with pension scams, it’s no different. The emotional toll can be as large as the financial, with some people being too embarrassed to report that they have been the victim of a scam.

  • Lisa Webster: Maximising protected tax-free cash

    While 2024 ended with a lot of doom and gloom in the pension world following the big announcement on inheritance tax (IHT), there was some good news that may have slipped under the radar of some advisers.

  • Tilley: Is the age 75 trigger date now irrelevant?

    Age 75 has been an important milestone in pension rules since A day in 2006. It was the latest age at which a compulsory annuity purchase was required (prior to Pensions Freedoms). It's arguably it’s long been an arbitrary line in the sand, noting that life expectancy has been on the increase for the last 20 years, but this trigger age has remained unchanged.

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The cost of a moderate retirement income is £25,000 per year for a single person and £36,480 for a couple, according to data from Hargreaves Lansdown’s savings and resilience barometer, published today.

The Financial Ombudsman Service received 1,460 new complaints about SIPP products over the past year, according to its annual report on complaints.

The average salary at the FCA has risen by an average of 4.8% this year to £71,290, with some younger staff members receiving an 11.2% increase.

Two thirds (63%) of over-55s who plan to return to paid work have failed to check the potential tax implications of doing so, according to a new report.

Labour MP Emma Reynolds has been appointed as Pensions Minister in a new joint ministerial role working across both the Treasury and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

The FCA is to consult on introducing compulsory criminal background checks on firm owners and controllers applying for authorisation from January 2025.

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