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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: 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.

  • James Jones-Tinsley: Guided Retirement Duty could be game changer

    During May, the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI), sponsored by The Pensions Regulator (TPR), concluded that defined contribution (DC) pension savers – including those in SIPPs, as well as in Workplace Pensions - require more guidance when choosing suitable retirement products.

  • Tilley: Is the age 75 trigger date now irrelevant?

    Age 75 has been an important milestone in pension rules since A day in 2006. It was the latest age at which a compulsory annuity purchase was required (prior to Pensions Freedoms). It's arguably it’s long been an arbitrary line in the sand, noting that life expectancy has been on the increase for the last 20 years, but this trigger age has remained unchanged.

  • Lisa Webster: Overcomplicated rules are a threat

    It may be more than a year since the Lifetime Allowance was formally abolished but issues are still emerging from the mess made by rushed legislation.

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Barnett Waddingham’s SIPP business board has appointed SIPP market expert Mark Smith as an independent non-executive director.

The pension gender gap between single pensioners under 75 has reversed for the first time ever, according to analysis of DWP data.

A legal challenge against the Financial Conduct Authority’s decision to set up a redress scheme for former British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS) members has been scrapped.

 

People who switch from full-time to working part-time three days a week face a pension penalty of up to £119,000, according to new research.

The north east is the cheapest place to be a pensioner, with over-65s needing an annual income of £14,782 to cover spending, according to a new survey.

The FCA has ordered Newcastle-based wealth manager WealthTek Limited Liability Partnership to cease all regulated activities following the discovery of regulatory and operational issues.

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