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A record £2.3bn was taken out of pensions pots under Pension Freedoms rules in the second quarter of 2018, HMRC figures have revealed.

At first glance, how the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) intends to improve retirement outcomes for non-advised consumers may appear of little relevance to advisers. And with no short supply of regulatory changes affecting their businesses’, many advisers might have concluded that the time spent reading CP18/17 was more a luxury than a necessity.

Glasgow-based SIPP firm @sipp has announced a two-fold increase in profits for the year ended 31 March.

It is almost exactly one year since Revenue Scotland reversed its decision to levy Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) on in-specie transfers between SIPP or SSAS providers. The reversal followed almost two years of industry debates, and indeed efforts to have the original decision overturned.

New figures from the Office of National Statistics have revealed that retired households saw a bigger jump in disposable income than their non-retired counterparts.

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