Just Retirement has reduced the interest rate on its Roll-Up Lifetime Mortgage rate from 6.5% AER to 6.4% AER, with effect from January 12.

In this week's Retirement Planner quick fire poll we ask: Are you currently checking all of your clients to see whether they should protect their funds against the lifetime allowance reduction in April?

Retirement Planner's round-up of the top pension stories this week.

SIPP investors who have the vast majority of their assets held in Unit Trusts or OEICs may be better off using a platform pension due to cost, says Skandia.

A new generation of 'Wearies' - Working, Entrepreneurial and Active Retirees - is likely as a result of inadequate retirement incomes, says Friends Life.

Advisers are being urged to check all clients coming up to and in-retirement to see whether they need to protect their fund against the reduction in lifetime allowance.

LV= has further reduced interest rates on its lifetime and flexible lifetime mortgages.

Retirement Planner's round up of the top pensions stories of the week.

Fiona Murphy rounds up 2011's at-retirement issues in the results of the Retirement Planner inquiry

Six months on from reforms and in a sustained period of market volatility, Fiona Murphy looks at how advisers should tackle the issues that income drawdown presents