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Pensions & Investment CPD hub

Online resources for your continued professional development.

You need to complete a minimum of 35 hours of CPD each year for retail investment activities, of which 21 hours should be structured. If you also sell insurance, the 15 hours required by the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD) can be included in that.

Tax year end - your top questions answered

We look at how to solve common tax year issues and answer your frequently asked tax year end questions.

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Pension business owner webinar

In this webinar, Clare Moffat and Fiona Hanrahan highlight the rise in business owners and discuss some of the implications in terms of the need for financial planning.

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Pension hot topics

In this webinar, Fiona Hanrahan and Craig Muir investigate three of the hottest technical pension topics.

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Planning for age 75

When it comes to pensions, reaching age 75 is an important milestone and for many this is a vital time for financial advice.

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Transfers in drawdown

The introduction of Pension Freedoms in 2015 had a significant impact on the defined contribution (DC) at-retirement market.

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Maximising workplace pensions benefits

In this webinar, Our Senior Pensions Intermediary Development and Technical Managers look at how to maximise workplace pensions benefits for scheme members, employers and advisers.

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Bridging the gender pension gap

In this report we look at pensions inequality in the UK, the various factors that contribute to this gap, and the steps can be taken by industry, employers and individuals to improve and deliver more equal retirement outcomes.

Read the report (CPD - 30 mins)  

The future of auto-enrolment: building on 10 years of success

In this report we look at the impact auto-enrolment has had on UK savings behaviours and retirement outcomes.

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The McCloud remedy

Adviser overview – Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS)

In this webinar, our Senior Pension Development and Technical Managers, discuss the changes to the McCloud remedy and how this may affect the pension benefits LGPS members are entitled to. 
 

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Adviser overview – unfunded schemes

In this webinar, our Senior Pension Development and Technical Managers, discuss the changes to the pension benefits of unfunded public sector members as a result of the McCloud remedy.

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Taxation and adjustments - unfunded schemes

In this webinar, our Senior Pension Development and Technical Managers, discuss the changes to the pension benefits of unfunded public sector members as a result of the McCloud remedy.

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Pension transfers

Gathering information for pension transfer advice

In FG21/3 the FCA state too much of the DB transfer advice it’s seen is either unsuitable or it was unable to assess its suitability due to material information gaps (MIGs).

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Defined benefit advice assessment tool - examples of unsuitability

This webinar is the second in our two-part series and focuses on the defined benefit advice assessment tool (DBAAT) - the tool the FCA uses to assess suitability of pension transfer advice.

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Lifetime allowance – take it to the limit and beyond

Craig explains why the LTA was introduced, how the level has changed over the years and the impact of the 2021 Budget and what this change will mean.

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Death benefits – Facts and planning

The changes to death benefits have had a fundamental impact on advisers, their clients and also the beneficiaries of clients.

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Pensions and divorce

Whilst divorce rates have fallen over the last 25 years, the proportion of divorcees over age 60 has followed an upward trend.

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Pension switching: to switch or not to switch - that is the question

Craig looks at the main regulatory concerns with pension switching and how advisers can overcome these.

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Annual allowance, who's afraid of the big bad tax charge?

Join Fiona and Justin as they dig deeper into some of the technical aspects of the annual allowance (AA), including how it interacts with tax relief, carry forward, the taper and the MPAA.

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Centralised retirement propositions

In this webinar, Ryan explores the intricacies of centralised investment proposition (CIP) and centralised retirement proposition (CRP) frameworks.

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Income drawdown - the good, the bad and the ugly

Hear from Craig Muir as he summarises the main concerns from the FCA in their Retirement Outcomes Review (ROR), the key changes impacting the advice process and upcoming changes. 

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Contributions, annual allowance and tax relief

Tax relief and annual allowance

Jim Grant and Caroline Kellas dig deeper into the technicalities of tax relief and the annual allowance in our webinar master-class.

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Death benefits

Pensions freedoms in 2015 introduced major changes to pension death benefit options and taxation.

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