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  • James Jones-Tinsley: Aiming for an advice-guidance sweetspot

    As Nikhil Rathi is reappointed as CEO of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for another five years, the FCA has set out its strategic direction for 2025/26, with important implications for financial advisers.

  • Lisa Webster: Divorce impact on lump sums raises question

    The lifetime allowance may have been consigned to the annals of history but the various forms of protection are still relevant in the new world, especially when it comes to the amount of pension commencement lump sum (PCLS) that can be taken.

  • Martin Tilley: How education can tackle pension scams

    The dark reality of pension scams is that we don’t really know how common they are. Fraud is a crime which tends to have low reporting events and with pension scams, it’s no different. The emotional toll can be as large as the financial, with some people being too embarrassed to report that they have been the victim of a scam.

  • Lisa Webster: Maximising protected tax-free cash

    While 2024 ended with a lot of doom and gloom in the pension world following the big announcement on inheritance tax (IHT), there was some good news that may have slipped under the radar of some advisers.

  • Tilley: Is the age 75 trigger date now irrelevant?

    Age 75 has been an important milestone in pension rules since A day in 2006. It was the latest age at which a compulsory annuity purchase was required (prior to Pensions Freedoms). It's arguably it’s long been an arbitrary line in the sand, noting that life expectancy has been on the increase for the last 20 years, but this trigger age has remained unchanged.

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The number of Britons looking to release money from their property to fund their retirement has risen to 61%, according to a report from the Equity Release Council.

The number of approved persons given the green light to work at appointed rep firms within three months of application has significantly improved in the latest quarter.

The FCA has instigated criminal proceedings against Kristofer McGuire, Keith Williamson and Karla Walker with fraud for their alleged involvement in a £8m high-risk trading scheme targeting pension savings.

Fewer people are cutting pension or SIPP contributions as the cost-of-living crisis eases, according to new data.

Nest, the auto-enrolment pension provider, has appointed Northern Trust as its new fund administrator to helping the pension scheme coordinate its investments across its diversified portfolio.

The National Audit Office has warned that a rise in supplier costs and the delivery timetable being extended by two years, have increased the government’s Pensions Dashboards programme’s estimated cost by 23%.

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