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Fewer people are saving long term as covering current costs gets harder, according to AXA's Big Money Index 2012.

Primetime Retirement has partnered with the Avelo Exchange portal in a bid to expand the distribution of its fixed term annuity offering.

Older people are struggling to access financial services because products and industry do not connect with them, suggests research.

The Association of Independent Financial Advisers (AIFA) has proposed the idea of ‘customer agreed liability' as a way of tackling the absence of a 15-year long stop on complaints.

The second financial services honesty dinner held on Monday night at London's Capital Club was, yet again, a colourful do.

Scottish Widows has launched an auto-enrolment platform, AssistMe, to aid employers as the new pension rules comes in.

Some British pensioners, as well as investors in index-linked gilts, face lower returns if proposals to align the retail prices index (RPI) measure of inflation with the consumer prices index (CPI) are approved.

Auto-enrolment begins on 1 October for the largest companies. Do you think employers are ready?

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