Your pension options from April
It is not long now before the new pension rules come into effect on April 6, 2015. Deciding what to do with your pension savings is likely to be one
UK Pensions 2015 – What Can You Do With Your Funds?
2015 sees the introduction of a new pension regime in the UK. It provides UK residents and British expatriates with a range of options for their pension savings. What will
Social Security rapidly running out of money for future pensions
The “devil is in the detail”: next year’s budget shows that Social Security will be unable to pay future pensions by 2030. That’s 20 years earlier than the government first
Pension Lump Sums – A New Second Option
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) published its draft Taxation of Pensions Bill on August 6, 2014, covering the new pension freedom that comes into effect on April 6, 2015. Pension
GNR pensions “at risk” in Grupo Espírito Santo
As the intrigue surrounding the Espírito Santo banking empire is minutely investigated, GNR officers are reported to be in panic over pensions invested in ESAF – Espírito Santo Fundos de
UK pensions – all change
The UK government took everyone by surprise in March by announcing a series of radical changes to pensions. The measures are the most significant pension reform since 1921, and give
Pension plunge
A study has shown that pensions will suffer a “steep fall” in real value over the next few years – and that’s before government cuts are taken into account. The
Radical changes announced to UK pensions
We tend to be glued to the TV when the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers his Budget Speech every March, in a similar way to how we must watch the
Government tweaks pension calculations in billion euro spending cut
Photo: MÁRIO CRUZ/LUSA Caption: Thousands of pensioners protesting against pension cuts descended on Lisbon last weekend The way pensions are calculated is changing next year in yet another government bid
Free your pension
Finally a UK Budget of all budgets that for the first time in 90 years has put forward some ground-breaking changes to how you can draw from your private UK