The government must make it simpler to transfer long-term savings such as pensions to children and other descendents, the Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) said.

Royal London 360 has launched a new single premium offshore bond called Oracle.

A pensioner has been charged with faking his death and then pretending to be his wife in order to claim on his life insurance policy.

IFAs must not allow clients in drawdown to fall foul of new tax rules surrounding death benefits, said Andrew Tully, retirement income technical manager at MGM Advantage.

The government must create financial incentives to use ISAs such as a National Insurance (NI) break, according to Hymans Robertson.

HMRC has offered employers who use employee benefit trusts (EBTs) the chance to settle upcoming tax liabilities with no further questions before the trusts become illegal.

ISAs have failed low income workers with inadequate savings and only benefit people who would have saved anyway, a think tank claims.

Spending watchdog the Audit Commission spent £20,000 in the past two years on luxuries such as meals in Michelin star restaurants.

AJ Bell has changed the terms and conditions (T&Cs) of its SIPP products allowing it to pass on the costs of FSCS and FSA levies to investors in the future.

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