Investment

IFAs now have less than 698 days, 11 hours, 58 minutes and 31 seconds to get their act together and prepare for pensions simplification introduction, according to the Scottish Widows' pensions simplification countdown clock.

Pension scheme members opting for an Alternative Secured Income when reaching age 75 will be able to nominate a person who is not a relative to receive any possible surplus funds upon their death, Scottish Equitable reveals.

Analysts at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research say their work suggests government and industry really have no idea about how to encourage long-term savings and may be putting forward policies that could be extremely damaging to pension savers...

Future pensioners face more means-testing as people become increasingly reliant on the state to provide them with a pension warns the Pensions Policy Institute

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.