Retirement

Axa Life Invest has added a death benefit guarantee to its drawdown offering to protect the amount passed on to family or dependents if a client dies before age 75.

Parmenion is set to upgrade its in-house self-invested personal pension (SIPP) wrapper when the retirement freedoms unveiled at last year's Budget are rolled out on 6 April.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the final rules on the independent governance committees (IGCs) that must be set up by providers of contract-based pension schemes.

The government has laid draft regulations before parliament to introduce a 75 basis point charge cap on defined contribution (DC) default funds alongside a raft of additional governance requirements for trustees.

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Money Advice Service (MAS) partnerships with financial services organisations are "coming to fruition" as "more people than ever" have turned to the service for help with their finances, chief executive Caroline Rookes has said.

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