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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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An investment firm has teamed up with an advisory business to offer a portfolio of products – including Sipps and SSAS.

The Pensions Institute has criticised regulators for "a massive oversight" in failing to regulate workplace advice to employers.

A pensions firm has reported a record year for commercial property and land investments within its Sipp and SSAS products.

Customers with drawdown pensions at Standard Life have amassed £10bn in assets under administration, suggesting the schemes are becoming a serious alternative to annuities.

A former senior manager at AXA and Partnership Assurance has moved to Xafinity to head up sales.

James Hay has announced it will close its Manchester office as part of a strategy to focus on its bigger centres.

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