As auto-enrolment minimum contributions are set to rise from 5% to 8% in April, new analysis show has shown the cost of opting out of a workplace pension scheme.
SIPPs remain a top three pension product recommended by financial advisers, according to a new survey by Defaqto.
Organised crime groups led by married couples or families are running pension scams worth millions of pounds, according to The Pensions Regulator.
A new survey has revealed 85% of respondents believed all DB schemes should allow partial transfers.
Automatic enrolment (AE) has, by and large, been a success story. Opt outs have been fewer than predicted and the 10 millionth employee has been auto-enrolled, according to figures recently released by The Pensions Regulator (TPR). It’s also been good to see TPR getting their teeth into a few unscrupulous employers that have flouted the rules to show they mean business.
A recently-published court ruling could open HMRC up to new claims from investors who accidentally lose lifetime allowance ‘protection’ by forgetting to stop paying contributions to their schemes.
Shock revelations, brought to light under the Freedom of Information Act, have suggested more than 100,000 pension savers could be hit with six-figure tax bills following tiny uplifts to their pension.
Pensions risk and investment management firm Cardano Group has agreed to acquire 100% of workplace pension provider Now Pensions from Danish pension fund Arbejdsmarkedets Tillaegspension.
Pension transfer values, as measured by the XPS Pensions Group Transfer Value Index, fluctuated moderately during January 2019, but with no overall change over the month.
It’s the time of year when all good advisers will be talking to their clients about making the most of any unused allowances, and this will often include using the annual allowance (AA) for pension contributions. But are there times when the advice should actually be NOT to use it?
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