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  • Tilley: Rebooting the FOS makes sense

    I’ve written before about the lack of coherence in the UK’s pension complaints landscape and it remains a source of real frustration for those of us working in the sector.

  • Lisa Webster: Pension age uncertainty lingers on

    We’ve known for many years that normal minimum pension age, NMPA it's known, is going up.

  • Tilley: Are we asking too much of pension savers?

    Working in UK pensions, I’ve always accepted that the system evolves. Fiscal pressures change, demographics shift, and governments recalibrate policy objectives. But even allowing for that, the pace and volume of legislative change in the pensions space over the last few years feels unprecedented, and in my view increasingly problematic.

  • Lisa Webster: Beware IHT and pensions double taxation

    One of the most disliked aspects of bringing pensions into the estate for inheritance tax (IHT) purposes from 6 April 2027 is the double taxation that will occur when the member dies on or after their 75th birthday.

  • Lisa Webster: Should tax-free cash always be taken?

    Since the Lifetime Allowance was abolished and replaced with the Lump Sum Allowance (LSA) and lump sum and death benefit allowance (LSDBA), we have seen an increase in SIPP members who want to take drawdown only – foregoing the right to take the associated pension commencement lump sum (PCLS).

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Retirement specialist Just Group has arranged a new strategic partnership with asset manager Invesco to launched a retirement solution designed to sit within a SIPP.

Pension consultancy Isio has launched a new platform to allow investors such as pension schemes to sell illiquid assets more efficiently.



Pensions could yet prove to be a decisive issue in the upcoming election with nearly nine in ten working people (88%) wanting whichever party wins the election to do more to help people save for retirement, according to new research.

Higher inflation data for non-retired households released today by the Office for National Statistics could put pressure on the pensions Triple Lock pledge, according to consultancy Broadstone.

SIPP operator Intelligent Money Ltd (FRN: 219473) has entered administration following an upheld complaint regarding some of the investments it allowed within its SIPPs.

The Society of Pension Professionals (SPP) has urged HMRC to exempt pension professionals from any new tax standards regime.

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