Displaying items by tag: AJ Bell

Wednesday, 31 August 2016 10:03

Morrison: End of era for Sipps world perhaps not a bad thing

Mike Morrison Head of Platform Technical, AJ Bell

I read John Moret’s article ‘End of era for Sipps world’ with interest the other week.

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Thursday, 11 August 2016 11:01

Mike Morrison: New Sipp rules open to provider interpretation

So, finally the Sipp industry will see the new capital adequacy rules come into force on 1 September 2016.

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Thursday, 07 July 2016 11:52

Proposed NEST expansion branded “mission creep”

A pensions firm says there is a “serious sense of mission creep” about the Government proposals launched today to expand Nest.

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Wednesday, 22 June 2016 11:39

Mike Morrison: Advisers' questions more complex than ever

I was at a street party for the Queen’s birthday and someone asked me what I did, and when I said I worked in pensions the immediate response was – “so you are a financial adviser?”

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Monday, 23 May 2016 12:21

'Chance to crack down on fraud via SSAS has been missed'

measures were announced in the Queen's Speech but SSAS got no mention

The Government has missed a chance to crack down on pensions fraud through SSAS, a technical expert says.

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Thursday, 12 May 2016 10:58

Mike Morrison: Hell bent pension spenders hard to stop

How popular have the pension freedoms been? In the period running up to April 2015, I was often asked what I thought we would see with the advent of the pension freedoms.

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Monday, 18 April 2016 12:45

Mike Morrison: A change of heart for A-Day

As we approached 6 April this year the press started to look at the ten-year anniversary of ‘A-Day’ – the day on which pension simplification regulations came into force. Their conclusions have, unfortunately, been anything but positive.

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Wednesday, 23 March 2016 08:56

Mike Morrison: Is the new ISA a pension replacement?

While a lot of people are breathing a sigh of relief at the lack of pension reform in the Budget I think we do know a little more of where we stand and that is resoundingly in the middle.

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Friday, 11 March 2016 11:28

Mike Morrison: Is it realistic to ask us to keep working over 67?

Looking at the UK’s first State Pension Age review...

I was writing an article the other day in which I made the point that, with the changing demographics in the UK, one of the Government’s main tools for controlling costs and behaviour is the State Pension Age (SPA).

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Friday, 29 January 2016 09:12