Retirement

Nine companies have been named Adviser Firm of the Year in their respective regions at the Professional Adviser Awards 2014.

People will have to build up at least ten years of National Insurance payments or equivalent credits to be eligible for the single-tier state pension.

People are ‘waking up' to the reality of living longer and the effect it might have on their retirement income, research suggests.

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has published its evaluation of auto-enrolment (AE) so far.

Savers in South Buckinghamshire have the highest average savings balances in the UK at £13,429, which is three times the typical balance in Hackney, research shows.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has further delayed the publication of its proposals for new capital adequacy requirements for self-invested personal pension (SIPP) providers, saying it wanted to factor in the findings of its current thematic review...

Legal & General (L&G) is "demanding" the government lowers a pension charge cap to 0.5%, but one expert says imposing a cap simply pushes costs elsewhere and would leave hundreds of thousands of businesses "to pick up the bill".

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