I read John Moret’s article ‘End of era for Sipps world’ with interest the other week.
So, finally the Sipp industry will see the new capital adequacy rules come into force on 1 September 2016.
A pensions firm says there is a “serious sense of mission creep” about the Government proposals launched today to expand Nest.
I was at a street party for the Queen’s birthday and someone asked me what I did, and when I said I worked in pensions the immediate response was – “so you are a financial adviser?”
The Government has missed a chance to crack down on pensions fraud through SSAS, a technical expert says.
How popular have the pension freedoms been? In the period running up to April 2015, I was often asked what I thought we would see with the advent of the pension freedoms.
As we approached 6 April this year the press started to look at the ten-year anniversary of ‘A-Day’ – the day on which pension simplification regulations came into force. Their conclusions have, unfortunately, been anything but positive.
While a lot of people are breathing a sigh of relief at the lack of pension reform in the Budget I think we do know a little more of where we stand and that is resoundingly in the middle.
Looking at the UK’s first State Pension Age review...
I was writing an article the other day in which I made the point that, with the changing demographics in the UK, one of the Government’s main tools for controlling costs and behaviour is the State Pension Age (SPA).
A pretty solid pension’s day was had earlier this month, with an eloquent debate in the House of Commons about equalisation of state pension ages.
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