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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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Criminals are getting ready to pounce on unsuspecting savers when the new retirement reforms take effect, a pensions expert has warned.

Retirement wealth planning firm James Hay has laid out plans to introduce greater flexibility for clients as the pension reforms kick in next April.

A pensions consultancy firm has predicted the average retiree is set to live on the poverty line.

A pension top-up is proving a suprisingly popular alternative Christmas gift, according to a new survey.

Pensioners plan to spend a total of £4.2 billion on gifts and entertaining this Christmas, a survey found.

Nearly £26bn of pension savings are "potentially exposed" to annual management charges of above 1%, a report has found.

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