Investment

Less than half of today's under-30s are saving in a pension in part because there appears to be no positive story about retirement planning, suggests a focus group study by the Association of British Insurers.

Providing employees with information about pensions will not be enough to reverse the negative long-term savings trend currently prevailing throughout the UK, says Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow.

Using so-called swaps will help trustees of pension funds better match future liabilities with current assets as the industry moves towards a heavier reliance on fixed income products to bear the cost of a rapidly ageing population, according to analysis...

Unretired pension scheme members will soon benefit from additional protection against future scheme wind-ups when new governnment regulations come into effect in three weeks time, the DWP says.

Scottish Equitable's pensions experts are hitting the road again with a series of 16 pensions roadshows, to help IFAs prepare for pending pension reform.

Government officials are wrong to suggest only a small number of people will take advantage of the coming pension simplification rules allowing investment in residential property, warns Steve Bee.

People opting for enhanced protection post A-day could face a £3,000 fine if they fail to tell the Inland Revenue they have swapped to primary protection, warns industry expert Steve Bee.

The Inland Revenue has left the proposal on Alternative Secured Income (ASI) more or less unchanged despite the fact it is opening up a tax-avoidance loophole, suggests a pension expert after her initial reading of the Finance Bill.

Lifetime and annual allowances will change in the first five years according to the following tables published in the Bill today.

Directors could soon be able to contribute up to £215,000 a year each to their own or their employees' pension schemes without paying any additional tax regardless of salary, says Steve Bee.