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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 Initiative for Financial Wellbeing (IFW) has been awarded Institute status by the Secretary of State for Business Kwasi Kwarteng MP.

Adviser platform Novia has added new benefit crystallisation event and pension income functionality.

Three quarters (73%) of retirement savers either can’t afford to retire or were unsure if they could afford to retire, according to a new report.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued warnings over two firms offering financial advice without its authorisation.

New emergency asset retention rules from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have been applied to 101 firms who provided pension transfer advice for former British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS) members.

SIPP industry veteran John Moret has called on the Treasury to review and rewrite SIPP regulation, saying the current framework is ‘a mess and not fit for purpose’.

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