From the blog: Most pension schemes are considering derisking and most of those are considering trivial commutation. Why? Probably because it seems like the pension scheme equivalent of decluttering – ...

Pre-Budget, the maximum value of a pension that could be trivially commuted was £18,000 (or 1 per cent of the 2011 to 2012 lifetime allowance of £1.8m). Before the Budget, Andrew Tully, pensions ...

The fact that every provider does not have to offer trivial commutation is a key issue, says Andrew Tully, pensions technical director of MGM Advantage, who says the change in triviality is subject to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. From our television screens to Twitter to the Houses of Parliament, there’s barely a place where annuities – ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Tom McPhail news every morning. Cash-strapped pension savers are looking for ways to work round rules which force them to turn small ...

The Government is facing growing calls to reform pensions trivial commutation rules ahead of the Budget. Current rules allow people over 60 years old with total defined-benefit and ...

The Government has frozen trivial commutation at its current level of £18,000, breaking the link with the lifetime allowance. The decision was revealed as part of the Government’s outline of its ...

Increasing numbers of people will be faced with the option of cashing in small pension funds Forthcoming changes to the taxation of pensions in April 2012 will not just affect high earners. They will ...