Retirement

Alistair Hardie discusses the importance of due diligence processes

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has issued guidance confirming salary sacrifice pension schemes will be able to meet automatic enrolment requirements.

Shadow pensions minister Gregg McClymont has questioned what the government's drive for ‘defined ambition' pensions "actually means".

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) will aim to prosecute companies that wilfully evade their auto-enrolment duties.

The National Employment Savings Trust has taken its campaign to make saving popular to the streets of London and Manchester.

In this week's Retirement Planner quick fire poll we ask: Following Intelligent Pensions' battle to recover missing SIPP funds, will you review historic cases where you arranged the transfer of non-protected pension rights for clients?

Retirement Planner's round up of the latest pension stories.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has reduced the deficit in its defined benefit pension scheme by £7.4m in the past year.

Partnership expects to complete a medically underwritten bulk annuity deal within the next few weeks in a transaction believed to be the first of its kind.

The majority of people who have not started saving for a pension blame lack of confidence, rather than unwillingness to save as the reason for delaying, research has found.