Retirement

A fully digital independent advisory business has launched a 'pensions predictor' tool to provide clarity over the impact of pension charges.

In this week's quick-fire Retirement Planner poll we ask: Could 'self-regulation' in the annuity market fail, as the FCA has warned in its latest paper?

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

The number of over-60s getting divorced each year has soared since the mid-1990s, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics.

Legal & General (L&G) has signalled its intention to become a "major player" in delivering low cost passive investment solutions to UK retail clients as the group saw profits rise 13% in the first half of the year.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will push ahead with its annuity market probe, and investigate if providers' profit margins are ‘high', despite industry murmurings self-regulation goes far enough.

Natanje Holt looks at the twin issues of falling annuity values and the recent history of GAD income maximums in drawdown and asks the question: Are we simply going ‘back to the future' rather than looking at a more relevant way of calculating income...

Fewer than one in four major employers say their scheme has a specific ‘decumulation strategy' in place to help retirees get the best annuity, research finds.

Mike Morrison looks at how people make retirement income decisions and concludes they are not always rational.

A telephone advice service offered by Aviva - originally believed to be a casualty of the provider's decision to exit advised sales in May - was in fact pulled months earlier after an audit flagged concerns over the quality of advice given to customers....