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Friday, 23 December 2016 09:39
Mike Morrison: Want a healthy debate? Serve up DB transfers
The one pension topic guaranteed to create a healthy discussion is that of defined benefit (DB) transfers.
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Thursday, 24 November 2016 10:19
Mike Morrison: When will we realise what we've done?
‘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=).
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Thursday, 10 November 2016 10:01
Mike Morrison: Will Hammond start afresh?
If you are quiet you will hear the whoosh of kites being flown! It is that time of the year – with the Autumn Statement on the horizon, everyone wants their ideas to be considered. Some of those kites are a new age-related bonus system, a call for a ‘pensions bonfire’ (to get rid of complexity), and various suggestions of periods of no change and independent pension commissions.
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Thursday, 29 September 2016 10:49
Mike Morrison: School incapable of teaching pensions and tax
One of the big themes recently in all areas of business has been financial literacy and education, particularly in terms of bringing some degree of financial education to the school syllabus.
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Wednesday, 31 August 2016 10:03
Morrison: End of era for Sipps world perhaps not a bad thing
I read John Moret’s article ‘End of era for Sipps world’ with interest the other week.
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Thursday, 11 August 2016 11:01
Mike Morrison: New Sipp rules open to provider interpretation
So, finally the Sipp industry will see the new capital adequacy rules come into force on 1 September 2016.
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Wednesday, 22 June 2016 11:39
Mike Morrison: Advisers' questions more complex than ever
I was at a street party for the Queen’s birthday and someone asked me what I did, and when I said I worked in pensions the immediate response was – “so you are a financial adviser?”
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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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