Retirement

Rupert Harrison,former chief of staff to Chancellor George Osborne, is to take up a new role at BlackRock to help develop its retirement proposition.

There has never been a better time to be in financial advice, but IFAs who fail to embrace technology will lose out to more tech-savvy firms who better serve pensions freedom clients, experts have said.

Aberdeen Asset Management is to partner with pensions consultancy Hymans Robertson for a service which will see it use the firm's technology to target direct investors for the first time.

Steve Webb has warned that the Conservative government may target the £15bn salary sacrifice bill in its July emergency Budget.

The vast majority of people do not defer taking their state pension, despite most being financially able to do so, losing out on as much as £19,000 extra retirement cash, according to research by Fidelity.

The government will closely monitor the developing drawdown market following the introduction of pensions freedom and act to cap charges if necessary, Lord Freud has said.

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Former pensions minister Steve Webb will make a keynote speech at the upcoming Retirement Planner Forum and Awards on 17 June.

Advisers are once again being lined up to take the blame