Ahead of the second Budget of 2017, pension professionals tell James Phillips what they think the Chancellor will seek to change on 22 November.
Philip Hammond is preparing to deliver his second Budget of his career as Chancellor amid tumult and fraught economic predictions. With the difficulties of Brexit, a minority government, and dwindling macro-economic performance and estimations, he faces a difficult task to deliver crowd-pleasing proposals. Altogether, this poses the question of whether Hammond will find the time to address pensions in his fiscal statement, let alone on a major scale. No change Unsurprisingly, this appears to be a somewhat consensus view across industry experts, with most predicting there will be ...
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