Retirement

The trustee board of the charity Life Academy have nominated Alan Pickering to be their next chairman.

Investors hoping to take advantage of the opportunity to put halls of residence into their self-invested personal pension will have to meet a strict set of criteria.

A proposal by the Law Commission on rights relating to co-habiting couples could see pension sharing orders becoming more commonplace.

The government is proposing to remove the restrictions surrounding protected rights in defined contribution schemes.

The basic state pension will last pensioners of tomorrow only three days, according to Axa.

Despite the government delaying the implementation of age discrimination regulations on pensions, the effects of the legislation are still unclear.

Synesis Life has appointed Capita Hartshead as its long term third party administrator.

Axa has announced it will keep the Winterthur brand in the individual personal pension and investment markets although it will combine group pensions into a new unit.

Generic advice will not be enough to stop people making "incorrect choices" on personal accounts, says the Financial Services Authority.

The Conservatives have failed to spell out any specific pension proposals in the interim report from its Economic Competitiveness Policy Group.