Investment

Government plans to gradually raise the retirement age to 68 may be increased to 70, the head of the Pensions Regulator predicts.

Just Retirement saw record business levels in the second quarter of 2009, though it was not enough to prevent the group from posting a sales decline in the 2008/09 financial year.

The Government wants the UK insurance industry to work more closely with it to manage risks in society.

The FSA has been accused of betraying with-profits investors by allowing insurance companies to continue making compensation payments from inherited estates.

The Government has rejected renewed calls to provide compensation to Equitable Life policyholders who lost out when the insurer was forced to close to new business in 2001.

Problems with pension transfers are becoming more common, and accounted for one in five complaints received by the Pensions Ombudsman in the last financial year.

The Government has brought forward its review of the UK's retirement age, it has confirmed today.

Life-long low earners should not join personal accounts or any pension scheme linked to the stock market, the Life Academy warns.

Aegon has launched a whole of market investment and retirement solution to help advisers create professional financial plans for their clients.

Mike Kerley looks at the investment opportunities available to investors hoping to invest in China and the rest of Asia