Investment

Moving to a flat-rate single tier state pension will take the risk out of advising people on whether it pays to save for retirement, MPs heard.

Fund managers' and pension funds' dedication to pursuing short-term investment goals is causing severely reduced returns, a panel of MPs heard.

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

More Britons are working beyond the state pension age as they delay retirement, according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Tenet Group has been invited to join the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Intermediaries Forum to help achieve more effective education and implementation of auto-enrolment.

FRESH START

Pensioner pressure groups have mounted campaigns in Eastleigh in a bid to capture attention as national media focus on the shock by-election.

Almost 15 million people are making no effort to save for the future, while eight million have no savings to their name at all, according to research released today.

FIVE THINGS

Providers could save £74.6m a year by communicating all information with pension savers online, under government proposals.