Retirement

The Pensions Regulator's (TPR's) position that advice is not essential when setting up auto-enrolment pensions leaves employees at risk of being enrolled into inappropriate schemes and the policy being seen as just another "mandatory tax", the Beaufort...

Opt-out rates averaged around 9% in the first six months of auto-enrolment (AE), the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed.

Helen Morrissey looks at who has missed out on AE and what can be done to reach them

More workers in their 50s are choosing opt-out of automatic enrolment (AE) into workplace pension schemes than any other age group, according to official statistics.

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Aviva has reported a profit after tax of £776m for the first half of this year, turning around a £624m loss for the half year 2012 - but said UK life operating profit fell.

Higher rate pension tax relief has been described as being in "its final days" and of "minimal value from a social perspective" by one adviser.

National IFA and employee benefits consultancy LEBC Group (LEBC) has auto-enrolled its staff a year ahead of its staging date.

Just Retirement's total annual annuity sales reached £1.34bn in 2012/2013, 12.5% up year on year.