Pensions

Over a third of employers said that they were unclear about their staging date for auto-enrolment, according to HR consultants Aon Hewitt.

Outsourcing investment to a DFM service can make sense for IFA firms but they have to go into the relationship with their eyes wide open, says Harry Kerr

The Pensions Management Institute (PMI) has launched an Retail Distribution Review (RDR) compliant pensions diploma for advisers wanting to boost their knowledge of the corporate pensions sector.

Guardian Financial Services is to acquire 300,000 in-payment annuities from pension fund consolidator The Phoenix Group.

A 74-year-old IFA has put his retirement plans on hold to contest a £250,000 mis-selling case levelled by a claims management company (CMC) - relating to advice given almost a quarter of a century ago.

Pensioners' incomes have grown faster since 1999 than those of working age people, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has said.

MPs should ditch their gold-plated pension arrangements and move to a defined contribution (DC) scheme, Saga director-general Ros Altmann says.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has vowed to fight potentially "catastrophic" EU plans to impose funding rules to British occupational pensions.

A pensions analyst who authored a report criticising the industry has spoken about the ‘vitriolic' reaction from independent financial advisers (IFAs) to his recommendations.

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