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Delay drawing pension until next year says expert
Financial advisers should tell clients thinking of taking money out of their pension fund over the next few months to wait until next year to make full use of the increase in the Lifetime Allowance (LTA), industry experts are saying.
Investment | 11 Sep 17
Should you sell in summer?
Negative updates and rocky company accounting during quiet summer months should not be a sole signal to sell a stock, says SVM Asset Management’s Margaret Lawson.
Brexit to hit three times more British than EU pensioners
There are three times as many Brits over the age of 65 living in other European Union countries than vice versa but they are showing little inclination to rush home ahead of Brexit, figures from the UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggest.
IFA jailed for forging signatures
A former financial adviser who was found guilty of forging clients’ signatures to invest their cash into a high-risk fund that later went bankrupt has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
Tax avoiders targeted in HMRC recruitment drive
HM Revenue & Customs’ spending on staff to target tax avoiders rose 7% over the past 12 months, increasing headcount at its Counter-Avoidance Directorate (CAD).