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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: 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.

  • James Jones-Tinsley: Guided Retirement Duty could be game changer

    During May, the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI), sponsored by The Pensions Regulator (TPR), concluded that defined contribution (DC) pension savers – including those in SIPPs, as well as in Workplace Pensions - require more guidance when choosing suitable retirement products.

  • 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.

  • Lisa Webster: Overcomplicated rules are a threat

    It may be more than a year since the Lifetime Allowance was formally abolished but issues are still emerging from the mess made by rushed legislation.

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The State Pension is 110 years’ old this week but an increasingly ageing population could spell future uncertainty according to experts.

New research from The Nottingham Building Society has revealed that 39% of retired people in the UK claim that they are having the best time of their lives since they stopped working.

The Single Financial Guidance Body (SFGB) began its work this week as it starts to take over from previous bodies.

An accounts manager is to be prosecuted on suspicion of misleading The Pensions Regulator by trying to hide a failure to provide workplace pensions at a string of restaurants.

Pensions cold calling is set to finally be banned on 9 January, a top Treasury Minister has confirmed.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has announced the appointment of Charles Counsell as its new chief executive. 

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