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Gallery2015 Budget Summary
Is Britain walking tall again? The chancellor claims it is. This was one of many announcements made as he embarked upon his sixth budget speech. Growth is now forecast to rise to 2.5 per cent this year and 2.3 per cent in 2016, he said. As such, borrowing estimates were lowered. Here at WPS […]
GallerySurge in employer fines for auto-enrol non-compliance
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The Pensions Regulator issued 166 penalty notices to firms breaking auto-enrolment regulations in the final quarter of 2014, an increase from just three fines in the previous quarter. TPR’s latest quarterly update on its investigations into auto-enrolment reveals it served 166 firms with £400 fixed penalties for failing to comply with an […]
GalleryWPS FINANCIAL GROUP WELCOMES NEW PENSION CHANGES
The WPS Financial Group, one of Wales’ biggest financial advisory groups, has welcomed new changes to pension rules, which make it easier and more tax-efficient to transfer pensions after death.
The changes, announced by Chancellor George Osborn this week, are partly designed to make pensions even more attractive to savers on the basis they can […]
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PermalinkThe New Pension Flexibility From April 2015: The Detail Explained.
GalleryThe New Pension Flexibility From April 2015: The Detail Explained.
Last month HMRC published the ‘Draft Guidance’ on the pension flexibility that is being introduced from the 6th of April 2015. It runs no fewer than 38 pages, confirming that once again (sadly) there is no such thing as simplicity in pensions.
The full guidance can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/344685/Annex_D_Flexibility_15_Guidance.pdf
Defined Contribution Schemes only
As a reminder, […]
GalleryGet your Lamborghini
When the UK government relaxed the rules around withdrawing funds from pensions, opponents of the changes claimed pensioners would blow their retirement pots on luxury goods. One politician coined the ‘right to buy a Lamborghini’ phrase in relation to this concern.
The concern relates to the introduction of flexible drawdown or uncapped drawdown – the […]
GalleryWPS and Ospreys team up again
A LEADING WELSH PENSIONS AND INVESTMENT SPECIALIST HAS REAFFIRMED ITS COMMITMENT TO THE OSPREYS, AGREEING A NEW COMMERCIAL DEAL THAT WILL SEE ITS LOGO FEATURE ON THE PLAYING STRIP FOR 2014/15.
The logo of WPS Financial Group, which employs 26 people across offices in Swansea and Cardiff and looks after 2,400 clients with over £247 […]