Malcolm Small, a Senior Advisor on Financial Services Policy at the IoD, reflects on the new pension rules. As the dust settles after the announcements in Budget 2014, it is becoming clear that the choices for consumers at retirement around how they might generate income have moved from huge and complex, to huge, complex and almost infinite. Recent announcements about the tax treatment of inherited pension funds have added fuel to the fire. Conversations with industry players and commentators have revealed some quite surprising conservatism and paternalism, suggesting that the whole purpose of pension saving is to produce a regular … Read More »
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