Back from the brink: Have pension liberation outfits met their match?

Back from the brink: Have pension liberation outfits met their match?

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The spectre of pension liberation still haunts the SSAS market but positive change is on the horizon, writes Rowanmoor's Mark Lisle…

A-day has a lot to answer for. The introduction of full concurrency (the ability to contribute to a personal and occupational pension at the same time), being able to draw a pension while still working, annuity deferral beyond age 75 through alternatively secured pension, the removal of cash restrictions on protected rights, and the introduction of primary and enhanced protection, for example. The removal of the restrictions on connected party transactions was a liberation. Removing this stumbling block, to getting professionals to think in terms of moving commercial property into pensio...

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