Investment

In the run up to retirement investors should look to take a balanced, rather than overly cautious approach to their investments advises Peter Hicks

The director general of the ABI has attacked the government for failing to live up to its promise on Personal Accounts.

There was a full house during the retirement planning section of the recent Professional Adviser summit. Helen Morrissey gives a run down of the subjects up for discussion

The Pension Protection Fund has published its updated management plan which reveals running costs for the organisation will almost double by 2009/10 to more than £22m from around £12m in 2006/07.

Rowanmoor Pensions has confirmed it will still offer in-specie transfers on property into SIPPs and SSASs, provided a recent independent valuation has been obtained.

Finance chiefs with defined benefit pension schemes in deficit are considering upping their contributions to their company's pension fund to reduce potential shortfalls, research suggests.

Lincoln Financial Group has unveiled its new flexible pension solution, which caters for both the accumulation and decumulation periods of retirement.

Workplace pensions are considered so important more than six in ten people would take a lower paid job to get one.

Government amendments to the Finance Bill 2007 could encourage more people to make use of the annuity Open Market Option at retirement, says Standard Life.

The only solution to a second wave of final salary pension scheme closures is for the government to encourage the introduction of risk-sharing schemes, claims the Association of Consulting Actuaries.