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Nearly one in five of those planning to retire this year will have debts averaging £31,200, according to Prudential.

Pembrokeshire-based 1 Stop Financial Services has cancelled its permissions to carry on regulated activities and closed to new business.

The Money Advice Service (MAS) has been much-maligned since its launch in April 2011, but consumers are making use of it in the way it was designed - to get free, impartial guidance on their finances. Here we break down the topics consumers go to the...

Today's average annuity will pay £14,180 less over retirement than an annuity purchased three years ago according to MGM Advantage.

The implementation of the single-tier state pension will cost the exchequer £265m, according to official figures released today.

A judge has refused to lift a lifetime ban on an adviser who was struck off for failing to compensate clients who the Financial Services Authority (FSA) found he had caused to lose "substantial" money from their pensions.

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has launched an investigation into the value for money of workplace defined contribution (DC) pensions schemes.

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

Actuaries claim public sector workers will gain from the abolition of contracting out but unions contend it could derail public sector scheme reform.