Investment

A clear majority of people will remain in a workplace pension once auto-enrolled, a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) survey has found.

Higher rate tax relief on pensions is "costly and ineffective" and should be scrapped, a think thank has warned.

The issue of advising small pension pots is to be debated in the House of Lords on 27 November.

A high take-up of auto-enrolment could make the policy a "victim of its own success", a think tank has warned.

STATE PENSION

An independent long-term savings commission is needed to depoliticise key pension policy decisions, AJ Bell has said.

The government's auto-enrolment legislation may have a more significant effect on consumers' disposable income than planned government cuts, according to JO Hambro Capital Management's Clive Beagles.

Money being channelled through an insurer's platform into external funds under auto-enrolment (AE) could put members' pensions at risk if the fund provider went bust, Standard Life has warned.

AXA Wealth's long-term pension plan and onshore investment bond are Retail Distribution Review (RDR)-ready, offering advisers flexible charging options.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has set out its proposals for the design of pensions minister Steve Webb's flagship defined ambition (DA) pension system.