Retirement

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A workable and affordable simplified advice framework must urgently be established to ensure ‘ordinary savers' properly benefit from next year's pension freedoms, delegates heard.

Sales of individual annuities at Just Retirement were down 59% compared to the same quarter last year, latest results show.

A look at how asset managers and insurers are changing their offerings ahead of April

Andrea Rozario, chairman of Bower Retirement Services and former director general of the Equity Release Council (ERC), has sounded a call to arms for advisers to get involved in the equity release sector.

Codename Project Minerva: Sesame's past business review uncovered

A focused advice market can and will develop off the back of the government mandated guidance guarantee, delegates at the Personal Finance Society (PFS) Conference heard.

Almost 1.6 million more consumers contacted the Money Advice Service (MAS) in the last three months than in the same period last year, latest figures show.

All seven product providers featured on Sesame's ‘focussed' restricted advice panel have denied breaching the regulator's rules on inducements, after the network was fined £1.6m for selling the coveted spots to the highest bidders.

Life, pensions and investment company Royal London is seeking to provide its non-advised retirees with access to independent advice "at low cost" in the wake of the Budget pension freedoms.