Pensions

Budget consequences will run and run

If Chancellor George Osborne wanted to get the nation talking over the summer period...

Confusion surrounds Summer Budget pension changes

Over 240,000 higher earners could risk unplanned tax charges due to confusion over the...

Summer Budget 2015 – pensions to be taxed like ISAs?

Today's Budget saw a confirmation that changes to pensions tax relief provided to the...

Seminar to look at ‘nudging’ towards retirement saving

Scottish Widows is running a seminar for employers, looking at the themes of behavioural...

Citizens Advice launches Scams Awareness Month

41% of scams reported to the Citizens Advice service come from a cold call...

Over 50s being targeted by pensions scammers

Retirement Advantage is warning retirees to be alert to approaches by fraudsters, after its...

New loan service secures against pension schemes

HNW Lending has launched a new service to provide loans against the value of...

National equity release roadshows unveiled

Equity release lender More 2 Life has teamed up with Partnership Assurance to host...

56% now saving “adequately” for retirement

The latest Scottish Widows Retirement Report has revealed that retirement saving in the UK...

Panacea Adviser offers pensions reform microsite

Panacea Adviser has launched a pensions reform microsite which provides advisers with information and resources...

Prudential and Hornbuckle agree partnership

Hornbuckle and Prudential have announced a joint initiative to bring advisers a new retirement...

Tripling in number of lost pension hunters

The number of people attempting to track down lost pensions has more than tripled...

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2026 forecasts: St. James’s Place

Four senior figures at St. James’s Place outline themes, opportunities and concerns for 2026. JUSTIN ONUEKWUSI, CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER Artificial intelligence is likely to remain a...

2026 forecasts: Atom bank

Chris Storey, chief commercial officer at Atom bank, provides his thoughts on the residential and commercial mortgage market as we head into the new...

“It’s Christmas time, there’s no need not to check your supplier list…”

With the Christmas holidays upon us, it’s fair to say that business issues might be slipping down the priority list just a little bit,...

FS25/6 and the execution-only irony brokers can’t ignore

Reading FCA FS25/6, it is difficult not to notice an uncomfortable irony in the regulator’s conclusions around execution-only sales. The paper rightly raises concerns about...

Less Autumn Budget and more Autumn Bodgit

After months of fevered speculation before the Budget residential property transactions juddered to a halt. I always suspected that as ‘confidence arrives on foot and...

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London exodus slows as leavers stay closer to the capital

The pandemic-era rush out of London is firmly in retreat with new figures showing...

Merry Christmas from Opus First Media!

Wishing you a Soup-er Christmas and a prosperous 2026! Between Christmas and the New Year...

Two-thirds of landlords plan to expand portfolios

Two-thirds of landlords are planning some form of growth activity in the year ahead...

High street banks line up in £2.5bn contest for Evelyn Partners

Barclays and NatWest Group have progressed to the second round of an auction for...

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