Retirement

Is Standard Life's middlewear for SME's really Good To Go?

Our weekly heads-up on the articles your clients may have read in the national newspapers over the weekend...

Pure Retirement, a new equity release provider, has launched to market with its Pure Drawdown Plan, a high loan-to-value lifetime drawdown scheme.

Pension fund managers will be forced to fully disclose details of hidden costs associated with their products under new government plans.

London and the South East of England have been named the UK's inheritance tax hotspots, with wealthy households in these two regions paying more IHT than the rest of the country put together.

A group of Labour lords has tabled an amendment to the Pensions Bill that would force the government to impose a pension scheme charge cap by 30 April 2015.

Income drawdown is growing in popularity. Vince Smith-Hughes looks at the process advisers should adopt when advising in this area.

This month's Retirement Planner Inquiry highlights the challenges advisers face when navigating the annuity market.

Legal & General (L&G) has set up a small team focused on providing tax solutions to high-net worth (HNW) clients of discretionary fund managers (DFMs) and the advisers who use them.

The audit of legacy pension scheme charges could hit provider business and affect the current level of charges being offered on auto-enrolment schemes, according to a consultant.