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The Treasury has changed its mind about allowing the sale of pension annuities. When pensions flexibility was announced in March 2014, one of the inevitable criticisms was that the reform came too late for those who had already turned their pension pot into an annuity....

28 November, 2016 /

Sterling’s fall is boosting dividend payments. On the day of the referendum, a pound would buy you nearly $1.50. It dropped sharply in the wake of the vote and then spent about three months churning between roughly $1.35 and $1.30. October produced another leg down...

21 November, 2016 /

Inflation rose to 1% in September, but that will not be the end of the story. Last month a spat between Tesco and Unilever over the pricing of products under a new contract saw Marmite temporarily removed from the shelves of Tesco’s internet shopping website....

14 November, 2016 /

The pre-Autumn Statement rumour mill is suggesting a radical reform of pension contribution tax relief. Could tax relief for pension contributions be based on your age rather than the rate of income tax you pay? It may sound strange, but one idea doing the rounds is...

07 November, 2016 /

 The government has published an independent review on the state pension system. There was a time when it was all so simple: men drew their state pension from age 65 and women from age 60. That all started to change in the mid-1990s, when the...

01 November, 2016 /