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

In this week's Retirement Planner quick fire poll we ask: With pressures on maintaining drawdown income levels is there more interest in moving to flexible investment-linked annuities?

Bad lifestyle choices such as smoking, poor diet, high alcohol intake and excess weight are responsible for ‘around 40% of all cancers', according to new research.

Britons aged between 25 and 35 are showing significant awareness and take-up of protection and health insurance products, according to new research.

My client has been reading about severity based payments for critical illness (CI) policies. I believe there is merit in polices that don't do this. In sales terms, what is the opposite side of the argument I can put to him?

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has published guidelines for individuals and healthcare professionals regarding patients about to return to work.

Underwriting requires information, so what can your connections tell us? Greg Becker visits South Africa to look at one idea.

The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries has identified lack of clarity about how to plan for future long term care needs and a lack of reliable sector data as barriers to market development.

By way of a Christmas present, the FSA and the OFT are consulting on guidance about new post PPI products, such as short-term IP (STIP).

Aviva has been reprimanded over its "Downton Abbey" sponsorship idents after media regulator Ofcom decided they broke advertising rules.