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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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About £100m worth of Stadia Sipps schemes will be wound down after Mattioli Woods was appointed to administer the process.

Life expectancy at older ages in England as a whole is now the highest on record for all the age and sex groups studied, Public Health England says, though it fell in some regional areas.

A pension transfers ‘roadmap’ is to be produced to help people navigate through the process.

Sipps Professional columnist Claire Trott wants to see all providers and platforms to be able to carry out electronic in-specie transfers, saying it can only be beneficial for consumers and industry alike.

Retirement lending must be looked at as a crucial element in the FCA’s probe into barriers to mortgage sector competition, The Equity Release Council says.

A former Hornbuckle and Standard Life Sipp consultant has been handed a role by Yorsipp to oversee its business in Northern Ireland and Scotland as both countries show a strong demand for Sipps.

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