Retirement

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.

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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.

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has announced plans for a retirement ‘window' allowing pensioners to take a slightly lower weekly state pension from the age of 65.

The Liberal Democrats want to enshrine the ‘triple lock' on the state pension into law and raise the tax-free allowance to £12,500 as the party unveiled its manifesto ahead of next month's general election.

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