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  • James Jones-Tinsley: Aiming for an advice-guidance sweetspot

    As Nikhil Rathi is reappointed as CEO of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for another five years, the FCA has set out its strategic direction for 2025/26, with important implications for financial advisers.

  • Martin Tilley: FCA must grapple growth v regulation question

    In late December, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer tasked 10 regulators with removing ‘barriers to growth’ in order to attach the jump leads to the UK economy. On 16 January, the FCA wrote a letter to the Government to outline their plans to support the growth agenda.

  • Lisa Webster: Over-taxation of pensions remains an issue

    HMRC’s January pension schemes newsletter announced changes to tax codes for pensions, and a few headlines followed proclaiming HMRC had finally fixed the over-taxation issue. It would be fantastic if that was the case, but despite nearly 10 years of getting it wrong, the problem isn’t resolved yet.

  • Lisa Webster: Divorce impact on lump sums raises question

    The lifetime allowance may have been consigned to the annals of history but the various forms of protection are still relevant in the new world, especially when it comes to the amount of pension commencement lump sum (PCLS) that can be taken.

  • Martin Tilley: How education can tackle pension scams

    The dark reality of pension scams is that we don’t really know how common they are. Fraud is a crime which tends to have low reporting events and with pension scams, it’s no different. The emotional toll can be as large as the financial, with some people being too embarrassed to report that they have been the victim of a scam.

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Spouses are keeping secret debts worth an average of £7,800 from their other halves and potentially risking their comfort in retirement, a study shows.

Hargreaves Lansdown has detailed a five point action plan to reform the retirement planning sector following the widespread criticism of the annuity market by the Financial Services Consumer Panel this week.

Sipp and SSAS provider Xafinity is urging advisers to factor in the possibility of their provider exiting the Sipp market after Capita decided to quit Sipp administration.

The Financial Services Consumer Panel has called for urgent change in the "non-advice" annuity market which it says "does not work well for the majority of consumers."

Detailed analysis of the "oldest old" from the 2011 Census has revealed the UK has 1.25m people aged 85 and over – growth of nearly 250,000 in 10 years.

AXA Wealth says that the Chancellor could have done more to encourage pension saving in his Autumn Statement today to ease the pain of a higher retirement age.

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