What made financial headlines over the weekend?
'People underestimate chances to survive to 75'
Report on effects of raising female state pension age
IFS study highlights financial plight of UK 30-somethings
New state pension comes into force today
Tax-free lump sum could be abolished in ISA-style system
Pension tax relief reform plans put forward by the major political parties smack of short-term ad hoc thinking which the UK could "come to regret", a think tank has said.
Conservative party plans to remove family homes worth up to £1m from inheritance tax (IHT) will be paid for by cutting pension tax relief for those earning over £150,000.
The second-hand annuity market may fail to develop and even if it does many people will struggle to make well-informed decisions, think thank the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) suggests.
Many middle-class professionals are paying an income tax rate of 60% as a result of a little-understood policy introduced by the last Labour government which affects more than 500,000 people, a leading economist has warned.