by Heather Hopkins | Oct 31, 2018 | Retirement
Many expected the Chancellor to succumb to temptation and implement a flat rate of pension tax relief to boost the treasury coffers in this week’s budget. In fact he didn’t. Nor did he make any changes to reduce the annual allowance in the Autumn Budget. But this may...
by Heather Hopkins | Jul 5, 2018 | Financial Advice, Retirement
NextWealth and Richard Parkin Consulting have just published fresh research, Retirement Advice Outlook Next Five Years, kindly supported by Bravura Solutions. Based on a survey of 267 financial advisers, in-depth qualitative interviews and data from platforms, the...
by Heather Hopkins | May 14, 2018 | NextWealth News, Retirement
The British pensions and retirement market has seen enormous change over the last five years. This change has been mainly driven by two factors: auto-enrolment and pension freedoms. So how might the retirement market look in another five years? The pension freedoms...
by Heather Hopkins | Mar 2, 2018 | Asset management, Platforms, Retirement
This week, I spoke about pensions for the self employed at the Association of British Insurers’ (ABI) excellent annual conference. The following are some of my remarks and comments from the panel. The beauty of auto-enrolment is that the less engaged the...