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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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A TUC-sponsored report has found that women, carers, ethnic minorities and the self employed lag well behind behind the average man when it comes to pension saving.

George Osborne has a “once in a lifetime opportunity” to create a tax environment to support decent living standards in retirement.

Any moves to further reduce tax relief on future pension contributions would be a “second tax grab on pension savers”.

A Sipp and ISA firm, which went into administration this week, has been bought by Embark Group, the parent company of Hornbuckle, it was announced this morning.

Key figures from 25 businesses that deal with Sipps attended a meeting this week to agree on a plan to move to a new electronic reregistration system.

AXA Wealth’s specialist Sipp and investment platform grew funds under management by 13 per cent to £20.7bn in 2015.

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