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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.

  • Martin Tilley: FCA must grapple growth v regulation question

    In late December, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer tasked 10 regulators with removing ‘barriers to growth’ in order to attach the jump leads to the UK economy. On 16 January, the FCA wrote a letter to the Government to outline their plans to support the growth agenda.

  • Lisa Webster: Over-taxation of pensions remains an issue

    HMRC’s January pension schemes newsletter announced changes to tax codes for pensions, and a few headlines followed proclaiming HMRC had finally fixed the over-taxation issue. It would be fantastic if that was the case, but despite nearly 10 years of getting it wrong, the problem isn’t resolved yet.

  • Lisa Webster: Divorce impact on lump sums raises question

    The lifetime allowance may have been consigned to the annals of history but the various forms of protection are still relevant in the new world, especially when it comes to the amount of pension commencement lump sum (PCLS) that can be taken.

  • Martin Tilley: How education can tackle pension scams

    The dark reality of pension scams is that we don’t really know how common they are. Fraud is a crime which tends to have low reporting events and with pension scams, it’s no different. The emotional toll can be as large as the financial, with some people being too embarrassed to report that they have been the victim of a scam.

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Average retirement incomes have hit a near three year high, a report said today.

James Hay is fighting an HMRC charge of nearly £2million in connection with a probe into a non-standard investment.

The Ombudsman has ruled against adviser firm Sesame in a case surrounding advice for a Sipp transfer.

A director of pensions and investments firm LV= was killed at the weekend after intruders shot him.

Two trustees have been banned because of a pension scheme with £16m of mainly ‘exotic’ investments that “bore the hallmarks of a scam”.

Some 85% of over 50s feel they retired too early, according to a survey of 50,000 of people in this age bracket.

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