Retirement

Alan Bradbury discusses the recent consultation on small pension pots and examines the issues with the "pot follows employee" approach

The number of flexible drawdown investors could rise in 2013 when the top rate of tax is cut to 45%.

A QROPS loophole, where a member can take double tax free cash, highlights the problems in pension legislation, according to a pension specialist.

Financial services firms have warned the cost of complying with regulations after the Financial Services Authority is split next year could rise by 20%, according to a survey by consulting firm Protiviti.

Adviser and SIPP provider Mattioli Woods said the acquisition of Kudos Independent Financial Services 12 months ago helped boost its full-year wealth management revenues by almost 50%.

Fiona Murphy asks what the impact of the FSA's paper restricting UCIS promotion will mean for the SIPP market

GHC Capital Markets has linked with Intelligent Money to launch a new low cost self-invested personal pension (SIPP) for clients using its investment management service.

Pensioners are being left "permanently impoverished" by quantitative easing (QE) and analysis from the Bank of England (BoE) denying negative impacts is wrong, Ros Altmann has said.

A Conservative Peer has criticised fellow politicians for failing to question the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) commission ban and warned of the unintended consequences.

Dentons has reported an increase in the number of esoteric investment requests it has turned down as unsuitable for client self-invested personal pensions (SIPPs).