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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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Standard Life has said it will drop drawdown charges as it prepares for the new pension freedom rules to kick in.

Proposals have been outlined by the FCA to make advising on the conversion or transfer of safeguarded pension benefits a regulated activity.

A Sipp firm has announced it is launching an "improved version" of one of its products in response to demand from advisers as the drawdown rules change.

A Sipp provider has warned financial advisers to avoid getting caught out by Easter falling over the tax year end.

The FCA has published final rules this morning on implementing a charge cap on default funds for automatic enrolment.

Labour has announced that it will fund a cut in university tuition fees through reducing the tax relief on pension contributions for the highest-earners.

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