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- Pension savers are freed to take their entire pot as cash from April 2015, the Chancellor confirms in his 2014 Budget – revolutionising pension saving by moving it from an income-based to a fund-based benefit for many savers.
- Pensions minister Steve Webb proposes a secondary market for annuities, to allow people with annuities to enjoy the same pension freedoms as those in DB and DC schemes.
- Government confirms it will not write to individuals app-roaching retirement to tell them their likely state pension but will instead facilitate them receiving a forecast on demand.
- Hymans Robertson calculates that pensions minister Steve Webb and prime minister David Cameron will both receive £37 a week more in state pension, worth £50,000, from the switch to a single-tier pension, while a contracted-in worker of the same age earning £14,000 a year will get around £26 a week less, costing £35,000 to replace.
- Scotland votes by 55.3 per cent to 44.7 per cent to remain part of the United Kingdom in a hard-fought referendum.
- Australia consults on forcing people to convert all or part of their superannuation benefits into an income stream after research finds a quarter of retirees have spent it all by age 70.
- Legal & General quits the ABI.
- AllianceBernstein’s Retirement Bridge becomes the first provider work-thru-retirement default proposition.
- Corporate advisers polled at the CA Summit predict a £2bn loss in 2015/16 caused by over-55s flushing salary through pension.
- PruHealth and PruProtect rebrand as Vitality.
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Firm of the year: Lorica Employee Benefits
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