Standard Life will scrap charges linked to its flexible drawdown product in readiness for pensions freedom from 6 April.

Retirement Planner is hosting its third breakfast briefing on 26 March looking at the options and opportunities pensions freedom presents for advisers.

Aegon has launched a dedicated website and interactive tool to assist advisers working with clients on pensions flexibility.

All defined benefit (DB) pension transfers after 6 April will be regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to ensure mandatory advice has been taken and fully understood.

Profits at Partnership Assurance dropped 51% to £64m in 2014 due to falling individual annuity sales in the wake of the Budget reforms, latest results show.

LV= has launched an online retirement modelling tool to help advisers select, explain and administer a blend of retirement options.

This week's events, hires (and a joke

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is "well behind the curve" on pensions freedom regulation and is operating a watching brief to act after things go wrong, Bruce Moss has said.

Legal & General's pensions strategy director Adrian Boulding is to leave the provider this summer.

The latest Retirement Planner poll asks readers if a 30 day cooling-off period should be introduced for pensions freedom retirees who haven't taken advice.