Financial advisers should not be asked to help fund the government's retirement guidance service unless it is of demonstrable benefit to firms, the managing director of support firm SimplyBiz has said.
New pensions minister Ros Altmann has said she is hopeful existing annuitants will get the opportunity to sell their right to an income for a lump sum.
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Advisers should be wary about using inheritance tax (IHT) avoidance as a reason to recommend clients make extra pension contributions, according to the head of tax and trust planning at Fidelity FundsNetwork.
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The Chancellor George Osborne is set to take the unusual step of delivering two Budgets in the same year after announcing plans to keep the promises the Conservatives made prior to winning the general election.
The opening up of the retirement income market will drive the emergence of more adviser-provider partnerships, according to Foster Denovo.
The potential for savers taking free financial guidance to mistake it for advice is real and threatens everything advisers "have worked hard for", a financial planner argued in a panel debate on the government's Pension Wise service.
Inflows onto Aegon's platform have tripled as the provider benefited from the effects of pensions freedom, it said in an interim statement today.
PP gauges industry opinion on Webb's five years as pensions minister