Retirement

Increasing employer pension contributions driven by rising longevity, auto-enrolment (AE) and poor defined benefit (DB) scheme returns has held back wage growth, according to Treasury figures.

The government will not change the basis on which GAD tables are formulated for income drawdown according to the Autumn Statement.

More workers will have to wait until age 68 for their state pension after the Chancellor confirmed entitlement rules would change quicker.

The government has today unveiled what it said was an unprecedented package of measures to tackle tax avoidance, evasion, fraud and error.

IFAonline.co.uk will provide full coverage of Autumn Statement 2013 from 11am on 5 December.

The government has announced it could bring forward plans to increase the state pension age (SPA) for people currently aged in their 40s or below.

Carey Pensions' Christine Hallett discusses the first year of auto-enrolment and highlights the upcoming opportunities and challenges.

Adam Wrench looks at how retirees living abroad can use QROPs to protect against the lifetime allowance

Inflation adjustment is coming next April, but will consumers understand the new set of figures, asks Natanje Holt

Fiona Murphy looks at AJ Bell's recent wish-list for pension reform, including calls to scrap flexible drawdown, and asks other industry players for their views.