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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 proportion of Sipp complaints upheld by the Financial Ombudsman Service has fallen to below half in the last quarter – despite a rise in new cases compared to last year.

A financial advice firm has launched a white labelled full Sipp through Talbot and Muir after becoming "increasingly disenchanted" with mainstream Sipp operators.

Alan Sugar’s former Apprentice adviser says the image of the pensioner as an old person crossing the road has been confined to a thing of the past - as a survey unveiled many over 55s looking to become later-life entrepreneurs.

Standard Life has detailed plans to introduce “greater automation” to its Sipp drawdown process.

Losses due to pension scams were close to £2,500,000 from July to August, police figures have indicated.

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