Retirement

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has called on the regulator to issue clear guidelines on adviser liability when handling pension transfers involving 'insistent' clients.

This week's events, hires (and a joke)

A law firm has launched a complaint investigation service for advisers to help them head off grievances before they reach the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS).

Our weekly heads-up on what your clients may have read in the nationals at the weekend...

Ros Altmann is to be nominated as a Conservative peer and will be made a minister with responsibility for consumer protection if the party wins next month's general election.

The death of the ‘once and done' pension plan

Life insurers received three times more telephone calls than average in the week following the implementation of pensions freedom, figures show.

Annuities will continue to play an important role in retirement planning and income despite predictions of their demise in favour of drawdown, Billy Burrows has said.

18 reasons you know you're an adviser in the capital

The Green Party has pledged to reform private pensions, channeling some of the money spent on pension relief towards creating a "more generous" state pension.