FROM THE PAPERS
Synopsis: Short summaries of articles we think you will find useful from some of the weekends broadsheets. At the end of each summary is a link to take you directly to the relevant article. Please see Helpful Hints at the end of the bulletin.
Date posted: Monday, January 05, 2015
ARTICLES
FINANCIAL TIMES
Financial Times:” Nuts and bolts of the pensions revolution”. Much-anticipated changes to pension rules — due to come into force in just a few months — promise to deliver freedom and choice for millions of retiring savers. Until now, hundreds of thousands of people each year exchanged their savings for a guaranteed income in the form of a lifetime annuity at age 65. From April, the requirement for most to do this will be lifted.
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THE TIMES
The Times:” Compensation scheme ‘let down 82,000 pensioners'”. Government rules punish many whose old employers went bust
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THE TELEGRAPH
The Telegraph:” How to make 2015 the year you get the perfect pension”. The countdown to ‘pension freedom’ has begun so Katie Morley shows you what to do, and when, if you want to take advantage Click here to go directly to the article
The Telegraph:” Sell your pensions for cash in retirement, Steve Webb says”. Pension’s minister Steve Webb wants to extend freedoms announced in the Budget to give up to five million existing pensioners the chance to trade in their annuities for cash
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