Retirement

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.

Financial adviser Richard Bishop has decided to move out of regulated advice and adopt a non-advised model because he said fees and ad-hoc levies have become unmanageable.

There is no need to have a single regulatory body for workplace pension schemes, according to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).