Income

A recent Prudential roundtable gave providers and advisers the opportunity to talk about the current issues affecting the at-retirement market. Helen Morrissey highlights the main areas discussed

Ensuring clients are fully aware of the open market option is a good way to ensure advisers and providers treat customers fairly says Kim Lerche-Thomsen

The open market option (OMO) is a highly valuable tool that is nevertheless woefully underused. Bernard Footitt discusses the inefficiencies that hamper the OMO's operation and puts forward ways to make it better

Each month, we ask our industry to answer one big question!

Retirement Planner recently staged its first event, the retirement planning e-symposium. Helen Morrissey writes about the issues discussed during the day

While the average pension pot continues to languish around the £30,000 mark people need advice on how to get the most from their savings. Mike Morrison goes through some of the options

Third way products were dealt something of a blow when the government refused to amend the tax rules around GAD limits. Helen Morrissey looks at what effect this decision has had on the market and what providers and advisers need to do to move the situation...

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has announced it considers withdrawals taken from unsecured pensions (USP) or alternatively secured pensions (ASP) as income for inheritance tax (IHT) purposes.

Helen Morrissey talks to a panel of experts about the prospects for annuities and drawdown

Property is playing an increasingly important role in many people's retirement planning. Wilf Altman discusses the different ways in which it can be used