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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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The Pensions Scams Industry Group (PSIG), the voluntary body set up to support trustees, providers and administrators in combating pension scams, has launched an ‘Interim Practitioner Guide’ which details the key due diligence steps to undertake when assessing a pension transfer.

XPS Pension Group’s Transfer Value Index fell by 4% in February to £168,000, the lowest month-end value since the Index was first published in June 2016.

SIPP provider DAC Pensions - which had more than 600 clients and nearly £27m in assets under administration - has been declared in default by the FSCS, opening the door to compensation claims.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt shocked the pensions sector in his Budget today by announcing that he would 'scrap' the pensions Lifetime Allowance and increase the annual allowance from £40,000 to £60,000.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme has declared Cardiff-based pension firm The London Trading Company (UK) Ltd (FRN: 678985) in default.

Pensions and SIPP provider @SIPP has announced the death of its founder and chairman Colin Barral at the age of 64.

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