HMRC

'Flexible' pension payouts of £2.7bn likely well short of actual figure

Extension to £1,000 could help confront 'inconvenient truth' about access to advice

Where's Gladys Knight when you need her?

Guardian SIPP is in talks to allow investors trapped in troubled investments to buy their way out of paying mounting administration fees, and to have direct access to any money clawed back from the firms deemed liable for their losses.

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A mandatory requirement on providers to use Origo's Options Transfers service is among the suggestions for improving the efficiency of pension transfers.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has said the 150 claims it is investigating against poor advice to invest in apparently tax efficient schemes relate to business written in the decade from 2000.

The amount of tax the government has collected from people breaching the lifetime pension allowance (LTA) has risen by 276% since George Osborne became Chancellor.

At the coalface: New hurdles for auto-enrolment advice

Advisers with small self-administered schemes (SSAS) on their books are being offered a free review by specialist provider Talbot and Muir.