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  • Tilley: Will IHT reforms really threaten pension saving?

    The Government’s decision to bring most unused pension funds and lump sum death benefits within the scope of inheritance tax (IHT) from 6 April 2027 has provoked widespread criticism from across the pensions industry. Providers, advisers and trade bodies have warned that the change risks undermining confidence in pension saving and damaging long term retirement provision.

  • Lisa Webster: Salary sacrifice cap will hit some hard

    The headline story from Budget 2025 - in the pension world at least - was the plan to cap National Insurance relief for pension contributions paid through salary sacrifice at £2,000 a year.

  • Tilley: Rebooting the FOS makes sense

    I’ve written before about the lack of coherence in the UK’s pension complaints landscape and it remains a source of real frustration for those of us working in the sector.

  • Lisa Webster: Pension age uncertainty lingers on

    We’ve known for many years that normal minimum pension age, NMPA it's known, is going up.

  • Lisa Webster: Beware IHT and pensions double taxation

    One of the most disliked aspects of bringing pensions into the estate for inheritance tax (IHT) purposes from 6 April 2027 is the double taxation that will occur when the member dies on or after their 75th birthday.

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The National Audit Office, the UK’s independent public spending watchdog, is to probe the FCA’s handling of the British Steel Pension Scheme restructuring which resulted in many steelworkers transferring their pensions into SIPPs.

Advised net inflows rose 36% year on year to nearly £4bn at investment platform AJ Bell for the year ended 30 September.

Edinburgh-based SIPP operator Forthplus Pensions has gone into administration after a string of complaints to the Ombudsman about the firm’s due diligence.

Advisers placed almost £2bn with investment platform Transact during the quarter ended 30 September 2021.

Under a third of pensions professionals believe pension dashboards will be of use by 2025.

SIPP provider Dentons Pensions has reported a 55% rise in new SIPPs business pushing its total number of schemes above 7,800.

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