A pensions firm has started a new fee schedule, which it claims will simplify charges.
After serving six years on the AMPS Committee, three years of which as Chairman, I felt that it was the right time to step down and let someone else take the helm.
Today saw the release of the ‘Women In Finance’ charter and although I haven’t really been engaged in the production of this, I decided as a woman, maybe I should take a look to see if I was missing out on something that might change my life or the life of my colleagues.
A former Hornbuckle sales director has been hired by SSAS provider Rowanmoor Group.
The DWP is seeking suggestions on how it can stop SSASs being used in pension scams.
The Financial Ombudsman Service has ruled in favour of a client who complained over advice to transfer the value of his protected rights into a new Sipp.
Advisers have been warned they face an extra FSCS levy next year as a result of rapidly growing claims related to Sipps.
An adviser is set to be banned and fined over 'unsuitable' advice related to switching pension funds via Sipps into unregulated investments.
Showing my age, one of my all time favourite Motown songs is: “The world is like a great big onion” by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. I am reminded of this classic at every budget or autumn statement because our pensions world has been growing like an onion – with layer upon layer of complexity added almost every time the Chancellor gets to his feet.
During the summer, HMRC unexpectedly began challenging Sipp providers on whether net pension contributions can be made in specie, (that is, a change of legal ownership without sell/buy transactions).