Retirement

'Retirement ready' clients need long-term advice

As many as 6,000 people have accessed the Money Advice Service's (MAS) retirement adviser directory in its first month of operation, the consumer body has said.

Death benefit complexities bring advice opportunity

A lack of regulatory guidance around insistent client handling could lead to the emergence of specialist firms who will seek to exploit retirees for a quick income, an adviser has warned.

Two-thirds (65%) of people aged over 55 and still in work think financial advice at the point of retirement should be compulsory, according to research.

Retirement overseas requires careful tax planning

Pension liberation scams have pushed four people who used them to take their own lives after realising they had lost much of their retirement fund, according to a victims campaigner.

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Workplace pensions: Three key predictions

Standard Life has named the national restricted advice business it is building 1825, in reference to the year the life company was founded.