The Treasury Minister’s Budget of the 20th February, announced a number of changes to the treatment of Isle of Man Pensions and the introduction of the widely anticipated pension flexibilities via the new Pension Freedom Scheme, available from 6th April 2018. Headline Changes By way of a quick sum...

In a move away from our recent focus on exploring and understanding an individual’s pension journey, we would like to concentrate this article on the recent news announced in the Treasury Minister’s Budget of the 20th February relating to Isle of Man Pensions and the new flexibilities and freedo...

Continuing our ongoing pension theme, which we have developed through a number of articles during 2017, we thought that on this occasion, we should perhaps take a look at what all these decades of potentially saving, in preparation for a comfortable retirement will actually mean. Life expectancy Dur...

What’s been happening? In our articles so far, we’ve mostly been looking at the issues for members of pension schemes who might be considering a transfer out of a defined benefit scheme.  In this piece, we thought it might be useful to look back at some of key findings following implementat...

Why are values so high? In our last article, we discussed the hot topic of transfers out of defined benefit pensions – sometimes known as final salary schemes – and we’re going to continue with that theme this month. One particular point which is generating interest in pension transfers is the...

Defined Benefit pension transfers have certainly had plenty of column inches written about them recently. The FCA are taking a closer look and they do have the ability to polarise advisers. All that said and whatever your view, we thought it would be useful to cast our eye over a few of the key talk...

Is the question really that simple? In our last article here, we promised a series of articles to help people navigate the complexities of pension planning and the legislation surrounding it.  This is the first of those, and a good place to start is the hot topic for anyone who has a pension in...