Investment

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.

Pension funds are calling for an urgent meeting with The Pensions Regulator to discuss ways of protecting UK schemes from the negative effects of quantitative easing, after the Bank today expanded the programme by £75bn.

The Bank of England's (BoE) second round of quantitative easing (QE) will be a "Titanic disaster" for pension schemes and members, Saga says.

Pensioners have been warned by police to keep a lookout when using cash point machines, following a number of "distraction thefts" outside banks and building societies in Coventry.

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