Retirement

In this week's quick fire poll we ask: Research from LV= has found advisers believe equity release will be a significant future growth area. Do you agree?

The National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) has hit a landmark of over 100,000 participating members, a step towards its target of at least two million members by the end of staging.

Key Retirement Solutions is launching the first nationwide service to handle the house buying and selling process for the over-55s.

Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the Treasury Committee, and Andrew Bailey, executive director of the new Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), have rounded on the European Union (EU) over its "shocking" implementation of Solvency II.

Partnership has hired Richard Willets as director of longevity.

Britons should be offered taxpayer-funded "financial MOTs" when they reach 50 to make sure they are prepared for retirement, a think tank has said.

Legal & General (L&G) has signed its first annuity reinsurance deal outside the UK in a €136m contract with New Ireland Assurance.

A group of Harlequin Property investors is seeking to agree a process with the company to facilitate the review of all investments through self-invested personal pensions (SIPPs) or those which have utilised a re-mortgage.

In this week's quick fire annuity-themed poll we ask: Do you think ‘Middle Britain' retirees are ill-served by conventional annuities?

Self-invested personal pension (SIPP) operator Hornbuckle Mitchell is to close its regional office in Holmes Chapel, Cheshire.