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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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Analysis of withdrawal trends at one pension provider during the first year of pension freedom show that full withdrawals represented just 1% of all withdrawals and the majority (77%) of full withdrawals were less than £30,000 in value.

Research conducted by Barnett Waddingham, the provider of consultancy and actuarial services, has found that UK employees suffer from “major gaps” in pensions knowledge.

James Hay’s parent company has reported that new Sipps went up 92% to 12,084 last year.

TISA, the financial services' provider association, is to help speed up the implementation of the 'pensions dashboard' set out in the Financial Advice Market Review final report and last weeks' Budget.

Sipp inflows for last year grew by 10.9%, new analysis has shown.

Despite not getting top billing in yesterday’s Budget – unlike the bombshell announcements of 2014 – pensions did still feature.

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