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Monday, 22 February 2016 12:19

Love affair between retirees and buy-to-let goes on

Retirement customers continue to look to invest the tax free cash lump sum from their pension pots into the buy-to-let property market despite the looming tax clampdown, data from Fidelity International suggests.

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Monday, 15 February 2016 12:39

Life expectancy at older ages reaches highest on record

Life expectancy at older ages in England as a whole is now the highest on record for all the age and sex groups studied, Public Health England says, though it fell in some regional areas.

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Friday, 12 February 2016 12:25

Pension transfers ‘roadmap’ to be created

A pension transfers ‘roadmap’ is to be produced to help people navigate through the process.

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Thursday, 11 February 2016 11:30

Claire Trott: Opening the eyes of estate agents to SSAS

Claire Trott, Head of Pensions Technical, Talbot and Muir.

In the last week I have been travelling around the country a lot and one day I was booked in to talk with some professional connections of a financial adviser, when I asked for a list of attendees I was a little surprised to discover the majority of the audience were property professionals.

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Tuesday, 09 February 2016 11:50

'Retirement lending is a crucial part of FCA review'

Retirement lending must be looked at as a crucial element in the FCA’s probe into barriers to mortgage sector competition, The Equity Release Council says.

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Friday, 05 February 2016 12:17

'Gordon Brown moment' predicted as Webb attacks Pension change

Replacing tax relief with a Pensions ISA could be George Osborne’s ‘Gordon Brown moment’ and cause ‘incalculable damage’, the former Pensions Minister claims.

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Wednesday, 03 February 2016 12:02

Net new business in Hargreaves Sipps rises to £1.2bn

Net new business in Hargreaves Lansdown’s Sipp nominee accounts was £1.2 billion for the last six months of 2015.

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Monday, 01 February 2016 12:35

'Shattered retirement plans' to be debated in Parliament

MPs will this afternoon debate claims that retirement plans “have been shattered with devastating consequences” due to transitional state pension arrangements.

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Thursday, 21 January 2016 12:50

Retirement planning boss backs single rate pension tax relief

A retirement planning boss believes that a single flat rate of pension tax relief could be the “boost to pensions simplification we’ve needed for a long time”.

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Tuesday, 19 January 2016 11:25