Retirement

The Budget pension freedoms are a tax collection measure set to drive short-term spending with long-term consequences, Punter Southall has argued.

Pensions campaigner Ros Altmann is leading calls for a ban on automatic annuity purchases.

Guidance guarantee levy plans will hit advisers ‘disproportionately' hard and in turn increase costs for consumers, according to the Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA).

Just Retirement has posted full year underlying pre-tax operating profits of £97m, 3% lower than last year.

Aegon has launched a High Income fund intended to help investors take advantage of pension freedoms coming announced in the Budget.

Two recent Financial Ombudsman decisions are crucial reading for the SIPP industry. Fiona Murphy looks at the issues.

In this case study David Trenner looks at some of the advice issues brought up by the Budget.

How should the guidance guarantee look? Chris Daems believes it should take a leaf out of NHS Direct's book.

Stephen Lowe looks at the post-Budget retirement landscape and asks if the guidance guarantee is enough.

Fiona Murphy examines The Pension Ombudsman's delays to decisions on pension liberation fraud and wider concerns about how liberation could shift.