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Tuesday, 31 July 2018 16:00
Record £2.3bn withdrawn under Pension Freedoms
A record £2.3bn was taken out of pensions pots under Pension Freedoms rules in the second quarter of 2018, HMRC figures have revealed.
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Monday, 30 July 2018 11:00
Guest column - Lee Halpin @sipp: Do investment pathways strengthen the case for CRPs?
At first glance, how the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) intends to improve retirement outcomes for non-advised consumers may appear of little relevance to advisers. And with no short supply of regulatory changes affecting their businesses’, many advisers might have concluded that the time spent reading CP18/17 was more a luxury than a necessity.
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Friday, 27 July 2018 12:30
Scottish SIPP firm doubles profits and targets England growth
Glasgow-based SIPP firm @sipp has announced a two-fold increase in profits for the year ended 31 March.
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Thursday, 26 July 2018 14:25
Disposable income of retirees grows fastest
New figures from the Office of National Statistics have revealed that retired households saw a bigger jump in disposable income than their non-retired counterparts.
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Wednesday, 25 July 2018 09:44
STM expands senior staff as it looks for takeovers
STM Group, the cross-border financial services group which offers an International SIPP, is planning to expand its senior staff as the firm seeks to grow through acquisition.
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Tuesday, 24 July 2018 08:30
Lisa Webster: Freedom on death - transfers can be the best option
When the pension freedoms were introduced it meant radical changes in a short space of time, with providers scurrying round to be ready and the FCA playing catch-up after the event – most recently in the form of the Retirement Outcomes Review final report.
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Monday, 23 July 2018 14:25
Government must act on pensions dashboard says PIMFA
Wealth management and financial advice association PIMFA has hit out at the Government after it was reported the pensions dashboard idea could be in jeopardy.
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Friday, 20 July 2018 14:33
Elaine Turtle: It's pension tax relief Groundhog Day
You could be forgiven for thinking that it was Groundhog Day again.
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Tuesday, 17 July 2018 15:00
ABI plea to Govt: ‘don’t kill vital pensions dashboard’
Reports that Pensions Secretary Esther McVey was planning to kill off the proposed pensions dashboard were branded “a huge let down to millions of savers.”
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Friday, 06 July 2018 11:33
LEBC calls for pension withdrawals ‘cooling off’ period
Financial Planning and retirement advice company LEBC has called for the creation off a new ‘cooling off’ period on pension withdrawals under Pension Freedoms.
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