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The shift to ‘pretirement’ – where people gradually scale back on work or change jobs altogether rather than stopping work entirely – has become the new retirement reality, according to the Prudential’s latest annual research.

Crawford Gillies Former Scottish Enterprise chairman Crawford Gillies has been appointed chair of whisky-maker Edrington Group.

Alan Gordon Alan Gordon, Principal Commercial Partner in the Glasgow North office of DM Hall Chartered Surveyors, addresses the effect of the land tax on pension transfers.

John Waterson Thirteen Scottish-based accountants have been named among ICAS’s 35 Chartered Accountants (CAs) under 35 for 2017.

Mike Timmins and Cara Heaney EY has appointed two equity Partners in Scotland, bringing the total number of partners at the firm dedicated to the Scottish market to 34.

Tom MacLennan Hamilton Burns employees are expected to receive full wages, holiday pay and pension contributions owed to them after the firm ceased trading at the end of May.

Ross McEwan Royal Bank of Scotland has reached a settlement with US authorities to resolve the scandal over its role in the sale of so-called “toxic” sub-prime mortgages that played a major role in the onset of the financial crisis of 2008.

A man who took his employer to court after it said it would not pay the spouse’s pension to his civil partner in the event of his death has had his appeal unanimously allowed by justices in the Supreme Court who found a provision of the Equality Act 2010 incompatible with EU law. John Walker, the

New research has revealed that last year pensioners lost out of an additional £130 million took out an annuity with their existing provider without shopping around, which equates to on average £4,000 over the course of their retirement.

Global finance giant EY has identified Dublin as the top destination of the UK’s leading financial services companies planning their post-Brexit EU bases. The EY Brexit Tracker has monitored the public statements made by 222 of the largest financial services companies with significant operations i

The volume of retail purchases made by card now accounts for more than half of all customer transactions in the UK for the first ever time, according to the British Retail Consortium.

The Office of Tax Simplification, the independent adviser to the UK government on tax simplification, has called for a wide-ranging look at the potential for paper stamp duty to be reformed, digitised and simplified.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS) has announce the finalists of the 2017 ICAS 35 CAs under 35 competition, held in association with Investec Click & Invest.

Colin Ben Nathan Whilst welcoming the Taylor Review’s proposals to bring greater fairness in rights to certain workers in the ‘Gig Economy’, the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT) advises that the suggestion in the Taylor Review to keep the three categories of workers under employment law