{"id":20689,"date":"2021-01-21T11:06:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T11:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smh.group\/?p=20689"},"modified":"2021-01-21T11:06:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T11:06:51","slug":"new-rules-on-pension-drawdown-and-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devstagesite.co.uk\/smhgroup\/new-rules-on-pension-drawdown-and-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"New rules on pension drawdown and investment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>From February new rules apply if you choose pension drawdown but do so without taking advice.&nbsp; <\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Covid-19 pandemic has deferred many events of all sizes, from the Tokyo Olympics to millions of foreign holidays. One of the less prominent delays has been a change to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) rules on pension drawdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in June 2018, the FCA issued a consultation paper following a two-year review of the impact of the Pension flexibility reforms introduced in 2015. One aspect which particularly concerned the FCA was those pension owners who, having received various prompts to seek advice, decided to access their <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/devstagesite.co.uk\/smhgroup\/financial-services\/retirement-solutions\/\">pensions<\/a><\/span><\/strong> through drawdown without taking advice. The FCA found:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Many of these individuals were solely focused on taking their tax-free cash and paid little or no attention to the investment of the remaining funds to be used for drawdown.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Around one in three were unaware of where their drawdown money was invested. Many others only had a broad idea.<strong><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Some pension providers were \u201cdefaulting\u201d non-advised clients into cash or quasi-cash investments at drawdown. As a result, one third of the non-advised users of pension drawdown held their entire drawdown fund in cash. <strong><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The FCA concluded that its findings \u201cstrongly suggest that a significant number of non-advised consumers are likely to hold their funds in investments that will not meet their objectives for how they want to use that money in retirement\u201d. The FCA\u2019s proposed solution to this was to mandate pension providers to provide a range of \u201cinvestment pathways\u201d for drawdown funds, based on the client\u2019s objectives for their pension pot. The regulator also proposed that there would be specific warnings issued to those who held more than 50% of their drawdown fund in cash or cash-like investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposals were due to be put into force in August 2020, but the implementation date was put back to February 2021. With cash returns virtually zero, the delay has potentially been costly for some non-advised pension owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are unclear where your drawdown funds are invested, take note of the FCA\u2019s concerns and then take <em>advice<\/em> \u2013 the investment pathways will be a help, but they are not an advised solution, tailored to your circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/devstagesite.co.uk\/smhgroup\/financial-services\/\">Financial Services<\/a><\/span><\/strong> team are here to help on <strong>0114 266 4432<\/strong> or <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"mailto:info@smhca.co.uk\">info@smhca.co.uk<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>The value of tax reliefs depends on your individual circumstances. Tax laws can change. The Financial Conduct Authority does not regulate tax advice.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From February new rules apply if you choose pension drawdown but do so without taking advice.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[487,58,97,708,709,24,96],"class_list":["post-20689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-financial-services","tag-fca","tag-financial-services","tag-investments","tag-pension-drawdown","tag-pension-reforms","tag-pensions","tag-savings"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New rules on pension drawdown and investment - SMH Group Financial Services<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"From February new rules apply if you choose pension drawdown but do so without taking advice.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New rules on pension drawdown and investment - 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