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The one pension topic guaranteed to create a healthy discussion is that of defined benefit (DB) transfers.

After serving six years on the AMPS Committee, three years of which as Chairman, I felt that it was the right time to step down and let someone else take the helm.

Today saw the release of the ‘Women In Finance’ charter and although I haven’t really been engaged in the production of this, I decided as a woman, maybe I should take a look to see if I was missing out on something that might change my life or the life of my colleagues.

‘Another one bites the dust!’ A tenuous way to start an article I know, but it is in response to the news that another insurance company has decided not to continue in the annuity market (LV=).

Showing my age, one of my all time favourite Motown songs is: “The world is like a great big onion” by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. I am reminded of this classic at every budget or autumn statement because our pensions world has been growing like an onion – with layer upon layer of complexity added almost every time the Chancellor gets to his feet.

During the summer, HMRC unexpectedly began challenging Sipp providers on whether net pension contributions can be made in specie, (that is, a change of legal ownership without sell/buy transactions).

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  3. Jones-Tinsley: Cart before horse nonsense has to stop
  4. Mike Morrison: School incapable of teaching pensions and tax

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