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Pensions

  • James Murdoch steps down as Sky Deutschland chairman after pension fund questions “conflicts of interests and suitability”

    November 19, 2014

    James Murdoch has stepped down from his role as chairman of Sky Deutschland following today's AGM.    Murdoch will remain on the supervisory board, with Sky's chief executive Jeremy Darroch taking on the chairmanship role. Andrew Griffith has also joined the board as a member.    The move comes two days after the Local Authority [...]

  • Pensions sales drive strong third quarter results for Royal London

    November 6, 2014

    Royal London Group – the UK’s largest mutual life and investment company – posted strong third-quarter results yesterday, with pensions sales up 39 per cent year-on-year. Group pension sales were a key driver for company’s positive results, up 101 per cent to £1.72bn from the third quarter of last year. Individual pensions and drawdown sales [...]

  • Has the time come to privatise pensions?

    October 16, 2014

    Future generations could be short-changed and the public finances put in jeopardy unless the UK takes serious measures to reform the state pension system, according to a report released today by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) One way to give pensioners and taxpayers a better to deal would be to revive savers' ability to [...]

  • George Osborne’s pensions revolution: Withdrawing cash early is big risk

    October 14, 2014

    The insurance industry and business groups have issued a stark warning following the government’s most recent pensions announcement, claiming that withdrawing cash from pension pots too early could store up huge financial risks for the UK for years to come.    Yesterday chancellor George Osb­orne hailed the next stage in his pensions revolution with news [...]

  • Lib Dems told to stop tinkering with pensions by industry body

    October 5, 2014

    The Liberal Democrats were rapped over the knuckles by the insurance industry yesterday after the party proposed to re­duce the amount of pension pot money on which tax relief could be claimed. Huw Evans, deputy director general at the Association of British Insurers, called the proposal to reduce the lifetime allowance from £1.25m to £1m [...]

  • Behind a silver screen: Lionsgate’s Zygi Kamasa talks pensioners, big tellies and Colin Firth

    October 5, 2014

    The movie business is known for taking no prisoners. And for those that do try their hand at it, success is often fleeting. But Zygi Kamasa, the UK chief executive of entertainment company Lionsgate, has proved that, by playing your cards right, passion can lead to success. Over the past two decades, he’s been involved [...]

  • Why the abolition of the pensions death tax is great news for savers

    September 29, 2014

    George Osborne had more good news for retirees and savers yesterday, as he brought forward the announcement that he is abolishing the 55 per cent tax charge applied to some people’s pensions on their death – the so-called pensions death tax. Coming into force in April 2015, and on top of previous pensions liberalisation, the [...]

  • Conservative Party Conference 2014: George Osborne outlines plans to freeze working-age benefits, abolish pension death tax and cut benefit cap

    September 29, 2014

    Chancellor George Osborne has delivered a host of policy pledges to the Tory faithful at the party's conference in Birmingham today.   The chancellor began his speech highlighting the UK's success in reducing unemployment and the deficit. However, Osborne told the conference hall that there was still much to be done, and the recovery faced [...]

  • Osborne to axe pension death taxes

    September 29, 2014

    CHANCELLOR George Osborne will today continue his pensions revolution, announcing a radical new promise to abolish the 55 per cent pension tax paid at death. It comes as his party seeks to bounce back after Conservative MP Mark Reckless defected to Ukip and Brooks Newmark resigned his post as minister for civil society following a [...]

  • George Osborne to abolish 55pc inheritance “death tax” on pensions

    September 28, 2014

    A so-called “death tax” on pensions will be scrapped from next April, George Osborne is set to announce at the Tory party conference. The 55 per cent rate applied to inheritances of defined contribution pensions will be abolished at a cost of £150m a year the Treasury predicts. The policy, first floated in July, was [...]

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