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Steve Webb on contracting out of SERPS – John Greenwood look away

Steve Webb gives us his view of contracting out. He ended it in 2016 after which there was nothing to contract out from. It is worth the three minutes with the former minister to remember just what a big part … Continue reading

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“Demographic change – hard to grapple with – easy to ignore”

This is good Beyond Curious with LCP · S4 Ep.6 Retirement in an ageing society Stuart McDonald and Steve Webb are on my pod – it’s early on a cold Sunday morning. What are the demographic trends that impact our … Continue reading

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Steve Webb; IHT and other pension tax changes – 10.30 today.

Click here to join the coffee morning today (9th) at 10.30 am We brought the Pension PlayPen session forward by half an hour last week to allow some people to hear McGrath and Keating on the run on/wind up debate … Continue reading

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Steve Webb provides a blueprint to avoid a “budget omnishambles”

Steve Webb has simplified the potential impact on pensions of a November 26th budget. If you want to read the document , it’s here and you can download it  Webb refers in the paper to the 2021 budget when he … Continue reading

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Sir Steve Webb; IHT Changes & Pensions – a discussion.

  We brought the Pension PlayPen session forward by half an hour to allow some people to hear McGrath and Keating on the run on/wind up debate for occupational DB pension plans. Immediately after our pension was LCP’s session on … Continue reading

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Faced with financial uncertainty of the end of life? Steve Webb at his best

Steve Webb asks for feedback. I would ask anyone who is facing a long term future being looked after privately or knows someone facing this prospect to listen to this three minute video. Steve is taking seriously the financial consequences … Continue reading

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Pension freedoms don’t work for the dead, pensions are for the living!

I come at the issue rather differently than Ros who is keen on protecting retirement wealth as a haven for those with inheritance tax problems. Well I don’t think this is top of the list of Government priorities despite there … Continue reading

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Does HMRC care about DC savers who want their money due them?

More than half a million people have now been forced to reclaim tax they never owed after dipping into their pensions, with former pensions minister Steve Webb saying the system is “designed for the convenience of the tax office, not … Continue reading

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Playing the second half of the pension game with “defaults”

“Making sure more employers and savers have the option of an innovative CDC pension scheme is an important part of making that happen.” It would be easy for an enthusiast like Henry Tapper to argue for a CDC future , … Continue reading

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Welcome Scotland – goodbye Culloden

Those familiar with these things will recognise my Partick correspondent talking to the Pensions Minister. He’s chuffed as he should be – few people achieved what he has done for the PPF. I have been thinking of the exercise of … Continue reading

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