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Thursday, 12 May 2016 10:58
Mike Morrison: Hell bent pension spenders hard to stop
How popular have the pension freedoms been? In the period running up to April 2015, I was often asked what I thought we would see with the advent of the pension freedoms.
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Monday, 18 April 2016 12:45
Mike Morrison: A change of heart for A-Day
As we approached 6 April this year the press started to look at the ten-year anniversary of ‘A-Day’ – the day on which pension simplification regulations came into force. Their conclusions have, unfortunately, been anything but positive.
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Wednesday, 23 March 2016 08:56
Mike Morrison: Is the new ISA a pension replacement?
While a lot of people are breathing a sigh of relief at the lack of pension reform in the Budget I think we do know a little more of where we stand and that is resoundingly in the middle.
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Friday, 11 March 2016 11:28
Mike Morrison: Is it realistic to ask us to keep working over 67?
Looking at the UK’s first State Pension Age review...
I was writing an article the other day in which I made the point that, with the changing demographics in the UK, one of the Government’s main tools for controlling costs and behaviour is the State Pension Age (SPA).
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Friday, 29 January 2016 09:12
Mike Morrison: a touch of irony in pensions debate
A pretty solid pension’s day was had earlier this month, with an eloquent debate in the House of Commons about equalisation of state pension ages.
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Friday, 27 November 2015 11:39
Consultant switches Sipp firms to take up new role
A consultant has swapped Sipps firms by making the move to Talbot and Muir from Xafinity.
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Monday, 23 November 2015 12:35
'Pension rules should be relaxed to allow multiple drawdown'
Pension rules should be relaxed to allow multiple drawdown arrangements within the same pension scheme to be consolidated into one, AJ Bell has said ahead of Wednesday’s Autumn Statement.
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Thursday, 05 November 2015 09:58
Definition of financial advice 'dangerously blurred' - AJ Bell
Platform and Sipp operator AJ Bell is warning that the distinction between financial advice and other information or guidance services has become blurred and this is having two dangerous consequences.
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Thursday, 29 October 2015 11:29
AJ Bell urges crackdown on freedom-blocking pensions
In its response to the Treasury consultation on pension transfers and early exit charges, Sipp provider AJ Bell has called for all early encashment penalties that block access to the new pension freedoms to be scrapped.
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Monday, 21 September 2015 11:48
Mike Morrison: ISA style pensions not so popular when you explain
I was at my daughter’s birthday party last Sunday afternoon doing that bit where you hang around while all the kids have fun.
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