Retirement

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a rallying call to advisers and the wider industry to help it regulate, saying it "can't do it alone".

There has been a 23% increase in the number of UK adults who would consider equity release yet understanding of specialist advice remains low, finds research.

Retirement income experts have expressed concerns at the decline in the number of retirees claiming pension credit, on the back of new figures published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

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

Auto-enrolment has begun yet advisers aren't as involved as they should be. Where are the advice opportunities? Fiona Murphy reports.

Mike Morrison highlights some of the potential fallout from recent pension legislation

The administrator of the sales arm of the troubled Harlequin Property group has racked up fees of more than £28,000 in its first ten days in the role.

MPs on the Work and Pensions Committee have welcomed the government's move to ban consultancy charging on auto-enrolment schemes.

Hornbuckle Mitchell has posted a 5% revenue increase and 21% growth in year-on-year earnings for 2012, announced less than a month after the firm sold a controlling stake to two private investors.

The Treasury has claimed that the Equitable Life payments scheme is on track to close on schedule in 2014, despite claims it has been hit by delays and mistakes.