Pensions

Five things clients will call you about this week

A judge has refused to lift a lifetime ban on an adviser who was struck off for failing to compensate clients who the Financial Services Authority (FSA) found he had caused to lose "substantial" money from their pensions.

In this week's quick fire poll we ask: Do you think state pension reform is fair?

The National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) is looking for fund managers to run mandates in both UK direct and global listed real estate.

Wrap and pension provider James Hay has launched additional options on its low-cost self-invested personal pension (SIPP) aimed at mass market clients.

AXA Wealth has added two London & Colonial (L&C) pension products to its Elevate platform to offer advisers more investment options after the Retail Distribution Review (RDR).

High earners will be about £1,000 a year worse off following the government's planned state pension reforms, the pensions minister has admitted.

FIVE THINGS

IFAs will be hit with a "tsunami" of requests for information about corporate pensions in the next four years, forcing them to deal with the sector, according to pensions expert Steve Bee.

Poorer retirees will no longer have to pay higher-rate tax when they take a small pension pot as cash.