Pensions

Alan Higham shares his key pensions priorities

Former pensions minister Steve Webb will make a keynote speech at the upcoming Retirement Planner Forum and Awards on 17 June.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is consulting on widening the definition of 'standard assets' for providers of self-invested personal pensions (SIPP) to cut the cost of incoming capital adequacy requirements.

Navigating the dangers of pound cost ravaging

The lifetime allowance "has outlived its usefulness" and should be scrapped as part of a wider overhaul of pension taxation, Tom McPhail has said.

The government must rein in pension promises, or find the funds to back them as the state's unfunded liabilities approach £6trn, argues the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS).

Ros Altmann could struggle to make her mark as pensions minister as ‘political oxygen' for further pension policy reforms is extremely limited, a consultant has said.

Are defined benefit transfers worth the risk for advisers?

Mike Morrison's take on HMRC's IHT update

Retirees could be heading into trouble as average pension pots require ten times more investment growth than they currently produce to realise desired levels of retirement income, according to research.