Retirement

The average women currently retires on more than £5,500 less than the average man, according to a report released today.

About half of small businesses will turn to financial advisers to make sure they are compliant with auto-enrolment employer duties ahead of their staging date, a study of 500 firms has found.

The industry has five years to undertake "radical reform" or face heavy-handed government intervention, a researcher warns.

Proposed financial reporting standards would impose an "unjustified level of disclosure" on pension schemes, the National Association of Pension Funds has said.

Advisers are shying away from recommending pension savers take sufficient risk to grow their retirement portfolios over fears they will be punished by regulators, KPMG has said.

The trustees of the National Employment Savings Trust should take legal action against the government's decision not to remove contribution limits to the vehicle, shadow pensions minister Gregg McClymont has said.

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Around £300 million might be brought into the long-term care system by 2025 through the use of disability-linked annuities, according to research.

Pension providers must be monitored closely by the government during the course of auto-enrolment and may need to be regulated by The Pensions Regulator (TPR), MPs say.