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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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Imminent cuts to CGT and dividend tax allowances could increase the attraction of SIPPs and ISAs because of the tax sheltering benefits they offer, a major platform has predicted.

 

The consumer complaints body the Financial Ombudsman Service is to increase its maximum compensation award from £375,000 to £415,00 from 1 April.

Major new research has revealed that men are more likely than women (43% versus 37%) to manage their own pensions, such as via a self-invested personal pension scheme (SIPP).

Fund manager Marlborough has launched an investment platform for financial advisers and their clients with an annual charge of 0.2%.

The number of complaints about life and pension and investment companies fell by 8% during 2022, according to the latest data from the Financial Ombudsman Service.

Plans to bring forward a rise in the state pension age which were expected to be announced in May have been put on hold, according to newspaper reports

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