Welcome to Illuminate Tech

Designed to boost your knowledge and fine-tune your expertise, Illuminate Tech gives you access to factsheets, comprehensive guides and the latest insights directly from the minds of our Technical Support team.

Tools and calculators

We've launched a range of tools and calculators to help make pension calculations easier for you and your clients.

Technical factsheets

Our factsheets offer detailed technical analysis on a range of useful topics.

Tech Talks

Our technical team give their expert insight on pensions, tax and trusts.

Lifetime allowance abolishment (LTA)

Check out the LTA hub for the latest news and updates regarding the changes to LTA.

Meet our Technical Services team

Our highly experienced technical experts create white papers, run masterclasses and webinars, and produce insights to help you resolve technical challenges, learn about upcoming developments in the market, or navigate changes to legislation. This valuable support enables you to deliver better outcomes for your customers and ultimately help them to have a more rewarding retirement.

Andrew Tully, Technical Services Director

Andrew is a well-known and highly respected pensions expert and industry commentator, with a career spanning more than 35 years working in high-profile roles across the sector. Before joining Nucleus, he was most recently Technical Director at Canada Life and prior to this, Pensions Technical Director at MGM Advantage. He's also held senior roles with several leading pension providers including Standard Life and Aegon. Andrew is responsible for the analysis and interpretation of pension regulation, legislation, and taxation issues, and leads our team of experts in the technical team.

Julia Peake, Technical Services Manager

Julia was a technical specialist in the tax trust and estate planning team at Canada Life prior to joining Nucleus. Before that, she has held many roles throughout her 20-year financial services career, working with providers, wealth planners, and national advisory networks in the pension, tax, trust, and estate planning markets. Julia writes articles and factsheets for both internal and external audiences, assists and presents on with technical subjects and helps to develop internal expertise through training.

Kevan Ramanauckis, Technical Services Manager

Kevan recently joined the technical team from Standard Life, where he was a pension and retirement income specialist. He’s a regular speaker at adviser and PFS events around the country sharing best practice, and business opportunities. Additionally, Kevan’s wealth of knowledge helps advisers and para-planners better understand the range of more complex guaranteed drawdown pension plans, marketed throughout the UK.