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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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New rules have been revealed this morning to protect consumers as the pension reforms take effect.

A new report into workplace pensions has shown the largest increase in membership since 2013 was among 22-29 year-olds, with a rise of 17%.

Clicksco Financial Services, the finance arm of international digital data agency Clicksco Group, has merged with specialist pension annuities advisory firm My Pension Expert to create a new financial services venture.

Sipp provider Barnett Waddingham has confirmed that it will offer the full range of pension income options ahead of the reforms taking effect in April.

A Sipps firm says it has refused to play a "game of chicken" with rivals about revealing fees, as the new pensions landscape opens up.

More than a fifth of retirees due to give up work this year have said they are not ready to do so entirely – continuing a growing trend stretching back to 2011.

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