Law and Regulation

Tax relief on pension contributions is not an effective way of incentivising saving and the government may wish to consider fundamental reform, the Treasury Committee says.

The Treasury Committee has called upon the government to abolish the lifetime ISA (LISA) just 16 months after it was first made available, after receiving persistently negative feedback on the product.

MPs have again been warned that it may become illegal to pay private pensions to expat Britons if the government fails to secure a Brexit deal.

The Pension Superfund has rejected Pension Protection Fund (PPF) suggestions that consolidators should be subject to a specially-curated levy.

Robin Ellison says regulators should rethink their ambitions, as some things cannot and shouldn't be regulated

Jonathan Stapleton says the jury is out on whether or not the competition watchdog has gotten it right with its proposals for consultants and fiduciaries.

The Treasury has launched a second consultation on banning pensions cold-calling, which aims to seek final views on already-drafted regulation.

Respondents were almost evenly split in this week's Pensions Buzz on whether the Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) remedies for the investment consultant and fiduciary management markets go far enough.

The retail prices index (RPI) should be reformed within the next decade but the full ramifications must be properly considered, according to the UK's statistics chief.

A petition urging the government to not scrap its support for the pensions dashboard has garnered more than 14,000 signatures in two days.