Trustees banned after firm used pension scheme as income

IFAonline | 08 Feb 2012 | 13:00

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has banned three pension scheme trustees for life after uncovering “serious and persistent” breaches of investment regulations and legislation.

FOS pushes ahead with plans to name firms involved in disputes

IFAonline | 31 Jan 2012 | 16:20

The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) looks set to hold its ground on plans to include the names of businesses involved when it starts publishing final decisions.

New QROPS regime “may prompt EURBS mis-selling”

IFAonline | 27 Jan 2012 | 14:00

Proposals to reform the rules around qualifying recognised overseas pension schemes (QROPS) may prompt a spate of mis-selling of competing products, an expert has warned.

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Blog: Webb’s state pension 'bombshell' is designed to divide

IFAonline | 12 Sep 2011 | 11:00

The pensions minister this weekend showed he is no fool when it comes to political posturing.

We spent Whitsun week touring the Somme, a long-held wish of my partner and the Mother-in-Law; absorbing the history of the First World War, and seeking out the resting place of her Great Uncle Austin, late of the Somerset Light Infantry, who was killed in the first Battle of the Scarp (Battle of Arras) on 11 April 1917.

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