Income

FIVE THINGS

FIVE THINGS

The number of flexible drawdown investors could rise in 2013 when the top rate of tax is cut to 45%.

Pensioners are being left "permanently impoverished" by quantitative easing (QE) and analysis from the Bank of England (BoE) denying negative impacts is wrong, Ros Altmann has said.

HM Revenue and Customs has told providers to use men's drawdown rates for all drawdown users from 21 December 2012.

Pensions are not considered to be a "retirement funding source" by 44% of Brits, according to a survey by Baring Asset Management.

In this week's quick fire poll we ask: PICA is spearheading the development of a directory of pension intemediaries. Is this a good thing?

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has denied that its preferred option for consolidating small pots will increase cases of pension fraud.

A new website called The Retirement Academy has been launched to help advisers with retirement queries and research in the approach to RDR.

Britons' expectations of income in retirement are lower today than they were two years ago according to CoreData research.