Further to the Budget 2016 announcement and recent Mortgage Credit Directive implementation please note the following changes to ATEB suitability for your records.
Effective from midnight 21st March 2016
– APR replaced with APRC for Mortgages;
– APRC definition added to Mortgage Glossary of Terms.
Effective from midnight 1st April 2016
– Update to Stamp Duty Land Tax definition in Glossary of Terms;
– Update to Land & Building Transaction Tax definition in Glossary of Terms.
Effective from midnight 6th April 2016
Updated CGT rates in Investment Advice ‘Potential Disadvantages’.
Updated Death Benefit statements in Retirement Advice.
Revised definitions for the following Glossary of Terms:
Investment Advice
– Capital Gains Tax (CGT);
– Junior ISA;
– New Individual Savings Accounts (NISA).
Retirement Advice
– Annual Allowance (Limits and Charge);
– Capital Protection (or Value Protection) Option;
– Capped Drawdown Pension;
– Flexi-access Drawdown;
– Flexible Drawdown Pension;
– Guaranteed Minimum Pension (GMP);
– Lifetime Allowance;
– Money Purchase Annual Allowance (MPAA);
– State Pension;
– ‘Trivial Commutation’ or ‘Trivial Lump Sum’.



Ongoing client reviews – appropriate or not?
Alistair MacDougall Compliance FCA, Pension, PI, platform, Switch
FT Adviser published an article on 15 February under the headline “Advisers struggle to get savers to come for pension reviews”. We read this with interest and not a little concern. The article reported that one of the speakers at a recent conference stated that one of the greatest challenges faced by her advice […]