Income

In this case study David Trenner looks at some of the advice issues brought up by the Budget.

Stephen Lowe looks at the post-Budget retirement landscape and asks if the guidance guarantee is enough.

Vince Smith-Hughes looks at the challenges and opportunities for advisers in the post-Budget environment.

Should retirees defer their state pension? For some, it might significantly boost their retirement income levels. Fiona Murphy finds out what pension experts think

The Chancellor's pension reforms will see over-55s take out a total of about £5bn from their pension pots after the rules change in April next year, an actuarial firm predicts.

Almost 9,500 income drawdown contracts were written in the second quarter of the year, with the mean pot size dropping to just over £50,000, latest figures from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) show.

Toby Strauss, the chief executive of Scottish Widows, has said the pensions industry is in danger of "breaching its capacity to cope" following the far-reaching changes announced at Budget 2014, unless it is afforded some breathing space by policymakers....

The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) - one of the bodies tasked by the government with delivering free and independent guidance on retirees' options - has outlined its plans for how it would be done.

The guidance guarantee should be delivered as a process with various touch points not a one-off token conversation, the chief executive of the Citizens Advice Bureau has said.

Stephen Lowe takes a look at the recent Budget changes and highlights the need for more customer protection.