Investment

FIVE THINGS

Support services provider SimplyBiz has launched an auto-enrolment (AE) tool to help its member firms deal with an anticipated influx of AE business.

Tax relief on pension contributions should be scrapped and replaced in favour of a simple matching savings scheme, according to think tank ResPublica.

The at-retirement market presents significant growth opportunities for advisers and providers according to research from Dunstan Thomas.

STATE PENSION

Government plans to increase spending on state pensions have been criticised as "unaffordable and irresponsible" in a report by a free market think tank.

In this week's quick-fire poll we ask: Should consumers be able to switch annuities as pension minister Steve Webb has advocated?

Retirement Planner's round-up of the top pensions stories this week.

Cardiff-based IFA Penguin Wealth has launched an online retirement planning advice service aimed at lower-net-worth consumers.

Prime Minister David Cameron has said the state pension will continue to rise by at least 2.5% a year until 2020 if the Conservatives win the next election.