Retirement

Over 90% of advisers believe in the future their clients will consider equity release as a way of supplementing their retirement income.

Draft pension regulations on the disclosure of information scheduled to come into effect in October, will no longer go ahead.

Calculations of pension transfer values for defined benefit schemes should be made simpler and fairer to the transferring employee claims Standard Life.

Prudential has signalled its intention to build a bigger presence in the individual pensions market by adding a deferred sipp to its retirement funds proposition.

Liberal Democrat proposals to scrap pension tax relief for higher-rate taxpayers have been condemned by the pensions industry.

Pension officials say current government proposals for pension personal accounts auto-enrolment are likely to increase administration costs but still will not reach the main target market.

The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has reiterated its warning the potential impact of government pensions reforms may lead to employers cutting back their contributions to occupational pension schemes.

Being relatively new to the pensions game, I have to admit I was expecting summer to be nice and relaxing, as with parliament in recess I thought news emerging would be limited.

While the government does its best to decide whether it is ‘naïve or misleading', as suggested in the Public Administration Select Committee's report, the question outstanding is how will this affect personal accounts?

Some life offices are attempting to provide clients with a way of 'having their cake and eating it' when it comes to taking tax-free cash.