Retirement

In this week's quick-fire Retirement Planner poll we ask: Should SSAS be regulated?

A number of smaller employers are planning to avoid auto-enrolment (AE) compliance citing the legislation as "designed solely to allow the government to steal more money".

Origen has sold its small self-administered scheme (SSAS) business to pension provider and consultant Barnett Waddingham.

Suffolk Life has continued its acquisition spree with the purchase of Origen Investment Services' self-invested personal pension (SIPP) book.

FIVE THINGS

In this week's annuity-themed poll we ask: Should the Financial Conduct Authority review the direct to consumer annuity market?

Stephen Robinson, managing director of Bristol-based firm Clarke Robinson & Co, relays the story of a client forced into marriage by his pension providers.

IHT Planning Matters head Peter Legg talks about the current political motivation to clamp down on tax avoidance and what implications it could have for the planning of inheritance tax.

Pension schemes have avoided being forced to find £450bn worth of extra cash after the European Commission scrapped its Solvency II plans today.

Fiona Murphy goes through the results of this month's Inquiry and investigates how advisers are engaging with auto-enrolment