Retirement

STATE PENSION

Advisers have just a few days left to be part of the launch of a free consumer directory of retirement specialists before the site goes live on Monday.

A Conservative MP has warned annuities could become the next financial services mis-selling scandal without an urgent and radical overhaul.

Government plans to increase spending on state pensions have been criticised as "unaffordable and irresponsible" in a report by a free market think tank.

Vanessa Owen looks at the effect inflation can have on a retirement income

Fiona Murphy goes through the results of this month's Inquiry and asks advisers how the market has developed.

In this week's quick-fire poll we ask: Should consumers be able to switch annuities as pension minister Steve Webb has advocated?

Retirement Planner's round-up of the top pensions stories this week.

Equity Advice LLP has launched The Later Life Academy dedicated to supporting advisers in the at-retirement market.

A client who protested about commission being taken from his pension without his permission and without receiving ongoing advice in return has had his complaint rejected by the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS).