Comment and Blogs
I will be celebrating 10 years at AJ Bell in a couple of months. When I joined, Pension Freedoms had just been announced and it was all hands on deck to prepare for the huge changes on the way.
The new tax year will bring in sweeping changes to the pension world. Due to the rushed nature of the upheaval surrounding the abolition of the lifetime allowance, we still have some areas of uncertainty as the deadline rapidly draws near.
Read more: Lisa Webster: Perils of rushed pension legislation
One of the many facets of a pension trustee's role is to use their discretion to decide who should benefit from a deceased member’s pension fund.
The recent news that Labour has ditched plans to re-instate the lifetime allowance is certainly welcome.
The Ofsted grading system has come under scrutiny recently, but despite a report from the cross-party education select committee calling for an end to the simplified grades, the government have confirmed they are here to stay.
Read more: Lisa Webster: HMRC school report - could do better
As a much-changed Parliament gets up and running, we pension techies eagerly await the long overdue regulations to correct the drafting errors in this year’s Finance Act.
Read more: Lisa Webster: Tricky transition for pre A-day pensions