Investment

Merchant Investors is waiving all transfer and top-up charges on its SIPP until the end of the year, it has announced.

The TUC has urged Pensions Minister Mike O'Brien to resist pensions industry lobbying to water down the test to decide whether an employer's pension scheme is good enough to qualify as an alternative to Personal Accounts.

Living Time, the AIG-backed UK annuities company, has stressed it is very much "business as usual" at the firm despite the troubles surrounding its American parent company.

A mis-selling scandal is brewing for advisers on overseas pension transfers, according to an expert in QROPS (Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes).

Allowing SIPP investment in residential property could boost the flagging housing market and prevent a recession, a financial adviser says.

Members of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes are being reminded they have until Friday (19) to respond to draft guidance on how to calculate transfer values.

Rowanmoor Pensions has introduced a streamlined lending facility in conjunction with The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) for clients considering property purchase.

Lincoln Financial Group has launched a new IHT-competitive Discounted Gift bond, allowing people to move money out of estates while still retaining income.

Just Retirement, the specialist UK life assurance group focusing on the provision of financial services to those at or in retirement, has announced a rise in total sales of 12.8% for the year ended 30 June 2008.

The personal accounts delivery authority (PADA) has appointed Simon Richards as business delivery director with responsibility for the infrastructure and processes of the new pension plans.