Retirement

A pensions specialist is challenging calls from a Conservative councillor to lifts restrictions on residential property investment in SIPPs, stating some issues must be "carefully thrashed out" first.

LV= is reducing its equity release rates and will no longer charge a higher rate of interest on loans over £600,000 from today.

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Lesbian, gay and bisexual people are far more likely to rely on personal and occupational pensions than their heterosexual peers, research from LGB equality group Stonewall says.

More than half of the working population is still unaware of the government's automatic enrolment programme, just three weeks before its launch, a report has found.

The industry has to find new ways of providing low-cost advice on an ‘industrial scale' after the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), Scottish Widows has said.

A "toxic combination" of low interest rates, spiralling inflation and the Bank of England's quantitative easing (QE) policy has hit over 50s spending power, Saga has said.

More than 18 million workers will have passed through the auto-enrolment process by the end of next year, latest figures from The Pensions Regulator (TPR) forecast.

James Hay Partnership has notified advisers of its Retail Distribution Review (RDR) proposition ahead of its implementation in 2013.

Steve Webb is the longest serving pensions minister. Do you think he has done a good job?