Legal & General (L&G) has launched the WorkSave Choice platform and the WorkSave Pension Trust to help companies cope with auto-enrolment.

European finance ministers and the International Monetary Fund have agreed a €85bn (£72bn) bail-out for Ireland in an effort to calm market fears of a new banking crisis.

Alan Easter, strategy, product and development director at Honister Capital, has called on advisers to rally around AIFA during the transition to RDR and ignore those who make vocal exits from the trade body.

Skandia has called on HMRC to clarify whether pre-A-Day tax free cash will be protected when the new lifetime allowance (LTA) on pension contributions comes into effect in April 2012.

Only 22% of people know how much money they will need to save and for how long to achieve the retirement they want, according to a YouGov poll.

Pensions consultancy Mattioli Woods is shortlisting platform providers to help launch a discretionary fund management offering in summer next year.

The Equitable Life (Payments) Bill passed its second and third readings in the House of Lords yesterday, but not without renewed calls for pre-1992 annuitants to be included in compensation payouts.

A pensioner who says he does not trust banks lost £80,000 in cash after leaving it in plastic bags on the roof of his car and driving away.

Employers who run occupational small self-administered pension schemes (SSAS) have been warned about the tax implications of using encumbered assets as collateral when they take loans from their schemes.

Aegon will guarantee to increase the income base of customers invested in its unit-linked variable annuity product every year, regardless of the underlying investment performance, as the insurer makes a raft of changes to its Secure Lifetime Income (ASLI)...