The Money Purchase Annual Allowance (MPAA) has created a pensions tax trap for millions of people aged over 55, according to new research.

Pension savers have won more time to make voluntary National Insurance contributions to fill gaps in their National Insurance records and boost their State Pensions.

The sale of failed firm Rowanmoor Personal Pensions Limited (RPPL) to SIPP and SSAS provider Alltrust completed on Friday 3 March following exchange of contracts in December 2022.

XPS Self Invested Pensions has reported that its commercial property assets under administration grew by 87% in the last year, from £800m to over £1.5bn.

Fund manager Vanguard is to axe its low-cost Financial Planning arm which was launched in April 2021.

Pensions Minister Laura Trott said this week that the Pensions Dashboards will be delayed and will miss the 31 August deadline when the first connections were due.