Retirement

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

In this week's quick fire poll we ask: Do you think the ABI code should 'go further' to protect consumers?

More Britons are working beyond the state pension age as they delay retirement, according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

The Pension Income Choice Association's (PICA's) adviser directory for retirement clients will list IFAs, restricted advice firms and bank advisers, it has confirmed.

The mandatory code of conduct on retirement choices for all Association of British Insurers (ABI) members, set to be enforced from 1 March, must go further to better help consumers, annuity campaigners have said.

Tenet Group has been invited to join the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Intermediaries Forum to help achieve more effective education and implementation of auto-enrolment.

Annuity Direct has warned the Association of British of Insurers' (ABI) code of conduct on annuity purchase will not be ‘strong enough' to protect consumers or encourage shopping around.

FRESH START

Pensioner pressure groups have mounted campaigns in Eastleigh in a bid to capture attention as national media focus on the shock by-election.

Almost 15 million people are making no effort to save for the future, while eight million have no savings to their name at all, according to research released today.