by Psyphadeejay | Mar 19, 2014 | pensions, tax
Investors with large pensions could find themselves facing a 55% tax charge on 6th April 2014 if they do not take the neccessary precautions to protect their retirement pension fund. The total amount you can hold in a pension, called ‘the Lifetime Allowance’, will...
by bflindall | Dec 9, 2013 | pensions
Almost half (42%) of respondents have never made a change to their defined contribution (DC) pension investments, according to research by Alliance-Bernstein. In their defined contribution survey, which questioned 500 employees who save into a DC pension, found that...
by bflindall | Nov 26, 2013 | pensions, retirement
People should be made to pay into lifelong “personal welfare accounts” under reforms which would see them take more financial responsibility for their old age and National Insurance scrapped, a think-tank has argued. The report from Civitas argued that...