Category: Pensions
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Employers turn to IFAs to help workers retire on time
There has been talk in the Technical Press recently about Employee retiring age. Unfortunately in many cases there is a disconnect between employees and employers when it comes to that retirement age. While employees may want to retire at or before the age of 65, many lack sufficient funds and are being forced to work…
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Suspect pension advisers to be named on watch list
Excellent news:- Firms and advisers arousing industry suspicions of wrongdoing will be placed on a semi-secret watch list to warn businesses considering working with them. The Pensions Administration Standards Association (PASA) is working on a closed list with names of pensions schemes and advisers that have been flagged up as potential scammers, to be shared among…
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Industry Voice: I’ll think about my pension next year
“I’ll think about my pension next year”. It isn’t unusual for clients to make this statement. Often they think they can leave it until they have more money, have paid off the mortgage, built up the business and so on. That strategy used to work. However, the reduction in Annual Allowance (AA), removal of year…
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MPs target Auditors as Company Pensions collapse
The work and pensions select committee wants the government to tighten the net around auditors and their role in company pensions collapses in its upcoming paper on defined benefit (DB) schemes. Labour MP Frank Field told FTAdviser that the document, expected to be published in the spring, should have a look on “what is the duty…
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Stock Prices Slide as Market Volatility Returns
One of our favoured Investment houses, SEI, has commented on the current position of the Stock Market’s volatility. The extended period of calm for equity markets in recent years has come to a halt, pulling global markets lower. While declines can be disconcerting, they are a normal development in the course of market movements. The…
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Steve Bee: Make way for the next generation of Waspi women
A Well Respected Pensions Expert, Steve Bee, recently wrote the following article in one of the Industries Technical Press publication. I thought it would be of interest to you if I shared it. Mishandling of the recent rapid increases in the state pension age have had a devastating effect on many women There are three main…