Retirement

More than one in ten couples over the age of 40 have never discussed their retirement plans with each other, according to research from Prudential.

In this week's quick-fire poll: Does the planned cap on annual management charges (AMC) for pension schemes risk bringing an "artificial" element to the market, as Scottish Life has warned?

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

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A group of investors is preparing to pursue self-invested personal pension (SIPP) provider Stadia Trustees for hundreds of thousands of pounds via the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) for what it claims was its failure to carry out proper due diligence...

Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) workers may strike over the group's decision to remove inflation protection from its defined benefit (DB) pension schemes.

The planned cap on annual management charges (AMC) for pension schemes is too narrow and risks bringing an "artificial" element to the market, Scottish Life has said.

The self-invested personal pension (SIPP) market is in a ‘Mexican stand-off' situation with the regulator as it awaits capital adequacy regulation and the outcome of the third thematic review, a provider has said.

Defined ambition proposals could open the door to more flexible drawdown as master trusts provide both accumulation and decumulation vehicles, The Pensions Regulator says.