Blog: May you live in interesting (retirement) times

Blog: May you live in interesting (retirement) times

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Has the Chancellor brought about pension flexibility or more pension complexity? Neil MacGillivray voices his opinion…

Up until the Budget this year, changes in pension tax legislation introduced in the recent past had done very little to promote pension saving. But we live in interesting times for retirement wealth planning; a phrase I never thought I would associate with pensions! Anyone who works in the area of helping people realise their goals at retirement will be fervently hoping that the proposed freedoms available from 6 April 2015 will encourage people to revisit their pension provisions, get them to re-engage with pension planning, and re-consider pensions as an integral part of their overall ...

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