Income

Provider LV= has called for the introduction of new retirement solutions which could see providers and advisers split the risks inherent in providing income drawdown to the masses.

Pension contributions are likely to increase following the Chancellor's sweeping retirement income changes announced in the Budget, advisers predict.

Ros Altmann is to work with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to champion older workers as the government moves to better support people aged over 50 in the labour market.

At the end of the first PA debate, Yellowtail Financial Planning's managing director Dennis Hall emerged as the clear winner as 75% of you agree that retirees could not be trusted to make their own retirement planning decisions.

The Pensions Ombudsman has revealed it is investigating 84 complaints about pension liberation.

As we enter the final day of The PA Debate 75% of you agree with Yellowtail's Dennis Hall that we cannot expect retirees to make informed financial decisions.

The PA Debate into whether retirees can be expected to make informed retirement decisions has entered the fourth day with closing arguments now available online...

On June 11th Retirement Planner held its inaugural Forum and Awards at Le Meridien Piccadilly in London.

"The Budget freedoms are not license for people to spend their retirement income unwisely" - so said Key Retirement Solutions' Billy Burrows when I interviewed him recently (see pages 4-5).

Is the increased flexibility in how retirees can take their pension leading to more interest in property? Fiona Murphy finds out.