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Mixed Age Couples: Changes to Pension Credit and Housing Benefit
New rules came into effect this month for couples who are treated as ‘mixed-age’ under benefit regulations.
Richard Cropper has been invited to become a member of the Ogden Working Party
It is with great pride that we can announce that Richard Cropper has been invited to become a member of the Ogden Working Party, as it starts work on the 8th edition.
Managing risk or volatility
Richard Winward considers the move for fund managers to manage within volatility limits rather than asset-type limits
To crystallise or not to crystallise, that is the question?
6th April 2015 was a significant day in financial services history, as it marked the start of ‘pension freedoms’.
Just not enough hours in the day
Richard and Ian set out PFP's policy on accepting new pre-settlement instructions
ASHE 2018 data published
The 2018 release of the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE), conducted in April 2018, was published on 26th October 2018.
Fudge and caramel; are they really that different?
James considers whether risk and volatility are the same or different, with the help of the Beastie Boys
Court of Protection approves gift of £6,000,000 to be made by an attorney, to himself, from his mother’s assets.
In a recent judgment (PBC v JMA & Ors [2018] EWCOP 19), Her Honour Judge Hilder, Senior Judge at the Court of Protection, approved an application made by the attorney of a 72 year old lady, to make a gift of £6m to himself, from his mother’s c.£19m estate, in order to mitigate the impact of IHT upon his mother’s eventual death.