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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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A leading pensions body has insisted its members still believe the new capital adequacy rules for Sipp firms are "flawed" despite failing with its attempt to bring a Judicial Review.

The Association of Member-Directed Pension Schemes has failed with its attempt to bring a Judicial Review concerning the new capital adequacy rules, it has just been revealed.

A decision on whether a Judicial Review concerning the new capital adequacy rules will be allowed to go ahead should be known in the next few weeks.

A financial advisory firm has warned of an impending "boom time" for pension scammers after reporting a wave of cold calls to clients from possible fraudsters.

The name of the new pensions guidance service has been unveiled today as Pension Wise.

The Pensions Minister is set to be grilled by MPs in Parliament on Monday as part of an ongoing inquiry into the progress made with automatic enrolment.

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