Category: SIPP

If your pension savings are worth – or are likely to be  – more than £1 million you may need to protect your pension savings from the lifetime allowance tax charge. What is the lifetime allowance? The lifetime allowance is the amount of savings you can take from your pension schemes without facing a tax charge. […]

There has been a great deal of media comment about the sweeping pension changes coming in April over the way you can access your pension savings. We just want to take a moment to clarify some of the hype. 1. The Current Position 1a) Taking Benefits Presently, you have to be at least 55 years old when you want […]

The Chancellor announced a number of important changes in this year’s Budget: increasing the maximum income from 120% of the Government Actuary Department’s (GAD) table to 150%; the minimum income requirement for flexible drawdown is now £12,000; a maximum of 3 (previously 2) small pension pots up to £10,000 (previously £2,000) can be taken as […]

The impact of increased longevity: people now in their 40s to have a state pension age (SPA) of 68, with those currently in their 20s a possible (probable?) SPA of 70. From breaking  BBC News.

With effect from 6/4/2014 the Lifetime Allowance (the amount you are allowed to accumulate tax-free in UK pension schemes) is being reduced from £1.5m to £1.25m. To protect those with pension funds that exceed – or are likely to exceed – £1.25m, another form of protection has been introduced, called Fixed Protection 2014, which preserves […]

Today, our website gets a complete overhaul to give it a more modern, “cleaner” look. The change wasn’t purely cosmetic, though. We are now able to speedily post news / update the site ourselves and integrate it with feeds to our Twitter & Facebook pages. The aim is to be more proactive in bringing salient information […]