Academy / Pension Focus

Main steps to automatic enrolment Workplace pensions law has changed. Every employer in the UK will be required to help more of their workers save for retirement. Here you can find links to ...

The February 2012 edition has now been published Pensions Schemes Newsletter 52

Normally when it comes to paying voluntary national insurance contributions to increase your basic state pension the longstanding rule has been that individuals can only go back over the last six tax ...

If you are retiring abroad, you can continue to receive your UK State Pension. You can get pension yearly increases if you are in a European Economic Area (EEA) country or country with a special UK ...

The latest national statistics on The Pensioners' Incomes (PI) Series produced by the Department for Work and Pensions were released on 12th May 2011 according to the arrangements approved by the ...

When in Unsecured Pension, the uppermost level of annual income permissible is determined by reference to the value of the member's fund, their age at initial calculation and the Government ...

Changes effective from 6 April 2011 The main measure of the Finance Bill 2011, which will come into effect from April 2011,was to remove the requirement to annuitise by age ...

The crash of commercial property values throughout 2008 and 2009 is well documented and whilst the first quarter of 2010 saw the emergence of green shoots in this area the market seemed to stall as ...

Defined benefit / Final salary As the name suggests the final pension received in retirement is defined in advance, based on an accrual basis (for example, 1/60th or 1/80th), the length of ...

And remember that no matter how good the investments are if you buy into an expensive Sipp you'll be struggling from the very beginning. But a relatively expensive Sipp might well be worth it if ...