Pensions

TENS OF THOUSANDS of company directors will be able to pass assets to beneficiaries without paying inheritance tax, according to The Daily Telegraph .

James Hay Consultancy, Abbey's small self-administered scheme (ssas) business, has been sold in a management buy-out.

The Resolution Foundation believes the UK can learn lessons about financial awareness and advice by looking at the way New Zealand's Retirement Commission operates.

Unquoted shares could follow residential property and other more esoteric assets, and become effectively banned from self-invested personal pensions (SIPPs) in the Budget next week, warns A J Bell group.

Internal controls required by pension funds to promote trustee competency under new pensions legislation, could be made compulsory if trustees and advisers do not actively embrace the guidelines, warns consultancy firm Watson Wyatt.

The government cannot make everybody rich in retirement but could prioritise improving provisions for women by maintaining a state system, a leading pensions expert has warned.

Government officials are wrong to suggest only a small number of people will take advantage of the coming pension simplification rules allowing investment in residential property, warns Steve Bee.

Residential property can be included as part of an owner director's SSAS investment providing the property is inhabited by a third-party tenant, according to an IFA firm who has now created such schemes.

James Hay Pension Trustees has been awarded the outsourcing contract of Prudential's Small Self-Admi...

Self-administered pensions (Saps) have become the natural choice in pension provision for the wealth...