Retirement

In this week's quick-fire Retirement Planner poll we ask: Should pensions wake-up packs be replaced with a 'pensions passport'?

Advice firm Almary Green has reached its 50-staff milestone after recruiting 13 new members since January, including two advisers.

Labour should reverse the pension freedoms announced in the Budget 2014 if it wins the general election in May, a leftist think-tank has said.

Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) has launched a multi-asset flexible drawdown product in a bid to help fill the void created by the Budget freedoms.

The government should pay for the guidance guarantee's first year of operation instead of charging the industry through a levy, according to MGM Advantage.

Wake-up packs for people approaching retirement should be scrapped in favour of a simple pensions passport to help make it easier to shop around, Hargreaves Lansdown has said.

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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).