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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.

  • 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.

  • Lisa Webster: Maximising protected tax-free cash

    While 2024 ended with a lot of doom and gloom in the pension world following the big announcement on inheritance tax (IHT), there was some good news that may have slipped under the radar of some advisers.

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SIPP industry veteran John Moret has warned the sector that it must grasp the potential impact for SIPP providers of the new Consumer Duty requirements.

John Moret is one of the UK's leading SIPP experts and commentators. As he enters his 75th year, still working part-time, he begins a series of articles looking back at his long career and key topics which have steered the pensions sector. He starts with a timely look at the Chancellor's pension bombshell Budget delivered only yesterday. 

John Moret is one of the UK's leading pensions and SIPP experts and commentators. As he enters his 75th year, still working part-time, he continues his series of articles looking back at his long career and key topics which have steered the pensions sector. In this second article he reviews the impact of the 'Dear CEO' letter the FCA sent to SIPP firms recently and what it means for regulation.

Three directors - two of them IFAs - have been fined and disqualified as directors over a £44m SIPP mis-selling scheme.

Guernsey-based trust and pension company the UAP Group (UAP) has acquired SIPP provider Alltrust Services and has backed Alltrust's acquisition today of failed firm Rowanmoor Personal Pensions.

SIPP and SSAS provider Alltrust has acquired failed firm Rowanmoor Personal Pensions Limited (RPPL).

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