Retirement

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has launched the first comprehensive review of the UK's retirement needs.

Prudential has reported a 25% fall in the sale of its with-profits bonds, which it attributes to a fall in the number of bank advisers who were major distributors of the product.

A tool designed to help advisers project-manage their employer clients through auto-enrolment - and set an appropriate fee for doing so - has been launched by Scottish Widows.

How to monetise the mammoth job of helping firms reach auto-enrolment staging

Pension PlayPen has launched a free comparison tool to rate and compare quotes from all the main pension providers.

Liberty SIPP has reduced its offering to a single self-invested personal pension (SIPP) - Liberty Option SIPP.

Companies could be forced to funnel another £250bn into their final salary pension schemes over the next decade because of ultra-low interest rates and QE, according to a report.

Advisers are being invited to sign up to a free-to-view public directory which aims to connect pre-retirees with brokers to help them secure a better pension income.

Alan Higham considers the potential alternatives to annuities in a retirement income strategy

In this week's quick-fire poll we ask: Should Flexible Drawdown be scrapped?