Will the Chancellor pull one more pension rabbit from his hat?

Will the Chancellor pull one more pension rabbit from his hat?

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The Chancellor would do well to review the ‘increasingly restrictive and prejudicial' lifetime allowance, writes Lesley Harrold

Now that we have a clear Conservative majority, albeit a small one, what are the likely implications for the government's pensions policy in the course of this Parliament? After the whirlwind of the Budget 2014 announcements, the formation of the new Conservative government may herald a period of relative pension stability and this would be a welcome breathing space. That said, the proposals announced in the March 2015 Budget to allow members with an existing annuity to sell the policy to a third-party purchaser, could well be on the cards in the near future. The consultation on th...

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