Investment

A group of public sector unions will begin a High Court challenge today over the way public sector pensions are calculated.

Question: What education and training do advisers need with regard to unit-linked guarantees?

Question: What lessons can the UK unit-linked guarantee market learn from the more established markets such as the US and Japan?

Lord Hutton has said the Labour administration's pension reform package did not go far enough and may have "made matters worse".

Some of provider Scottish Widows pension customers have been affected after a technical glitch hit its investment rebalancing system.

Fiona Murphy looks at the financial strains affecting how women are preparing for retirement.

Unemployment in the UK increased by 114,000 for the three months to August to 2.57m people - the highest number since 1994, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Alliance Boots is leaving itself open to mis-selling claims from its thousands of pensioners after it offered to change the way their plans are paid, its former finance chief said yesterday.

The latest round of quantitative easing (QE) sparked a surprise rise in gilt yields yesterday, despite fears of long-term falls which could increase pension scheme liabilities.

Standard Life has revealed it is working with the National Employment Savings Trust to integrate the scheme into its proposition to clients ahead of auto-enrolment.