Advisers registered with IFA directory Unbiased are to offer free introductory advice sessions to consumers in a bid to stir interest in advice.

Providers fear the regulator's new rules on how they must deal with retirees will leave customers wrongly assuming they have received advice, if details of what is expected of them are not published soon, according to an industry figure.

The Money Advice Service (MAS)'s retirement advice directory, put in place to support the incoming pension freedoms, has opened for adviser registration.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has declared one former network and nine other advice firms in default.

Complaints about pensions dealt with by the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) have fallen markedly year on year, figures show, with the impending changes to legislation cited as a possible explanation for the drop.

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The government's guidance guarantee providers will not be properly staffed by April and will lack the right level of expertise to deliver the service, a pensions expert has warned.

The Post Office is to amalgamate its range of financial products under a new brand in its bid to become a leading 'challenger' in UK financial services.

More than half of a 'representative sample' of workers questioned in a recent survey said they were unaware the government's pension reforms had happened.

HMRC's crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion by people who it calls "mass affluent" saw an income boost of 60% in the last year, a new report has claimed.