“FCA: Retirement wake-up packs must start at 50”

Jun 29, 2018 | Retirement

An independent (financial adviser’s) view

Are they having a laugh? The next generations, who won’t have even a tin-plated pension, will at 50, have not retirement, but another 20 years or more of working life to plan! The regulator’s new ‘Retirement Wake-Up Packs’ are supposed to make sure that those without advisers use their pensions sensibly. Problem is, those without advisers are unlikely to have anything other than a few small workplace pensions to use, sensibly or otherwise. So. Not a great deal to look forward to. See you all in the free coffee queue at Waitrose.

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“Rachel Reeves may be forced to raise taxes”

“Rachel Reeves may be forced to raise taxes”

Why did she/they (in the old sense) think that tinkering around with IHT and CGT would be enough to sort out the NHS; and the potholes; and…and the list goes on. My guess is  that they asked the Treasury for a list of anything not involving income tax that they could get away with lightly, although they should already have learned from the winter fuel stuff that all publicity is not good publicity.