Today's quarterly FSA consultation paper (CP) provides a valuable opportunity to explore better ways of communicating income drawdown risk to investors, pensions experts say.

Intelligent Pensions (IP) is offering non-advisory ‘lay advocate' roles to IFAs considering exiting the industry due to the pressure of the RDR.

Inheritance Tax (IHT) is unpopular and ineffective and should be replaced with a new capital receipts tax, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) says.

People with several small occupational pensions should be able to group them together for trivial commutation, says Hargreaves Lansdown head of pensions research Tom McPhail.

The number of bankrupt over-65s has increased six times in the past ten years, the Insolvency Service says.

SIPP provider Suffolk Life will hold its fees at 2009 levels for 2011.

The Treasury has confirmed it will remove the potential unauthorized payment charge for people using drawdown caught by changes to the new normal minimum pension age (NMPA).

Over 40% of insurers are only in the preparatory stages of their Solvency II projects, or have yet to begin, PwC says.

HMRC has issued a warning to the self-employed to ensure online tax returns are submitted by 31 January or they will face a £100 fine.

Most small firms fail to keep pace with necessary increases in employer pension contributions, the Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) says.