Retirement

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

Neil MacGillivray weighs up the tax charges on various retirement vehicles.

On 6 April, QROPS will get a huge revamp. Fiona Murphy explains how the reforms will shape the market and what advisers should be doing in the meantime.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has identified consumers abandoning annuities as a cause for concern in this year's Retail Conduct Risk Outlook.

Primetime Retirement has unveiled details of the rates for the first issue of the Primetime Retirement Plan which opens for investment today.

Liberal Democrats in government push for urgent reforms of public and private occupational pensions, delegates at the party's Spring Conference will hear.

Steve Webb has called for the pensions industry to encourage people to ‘impulse save' alongside the more rigid auto-enrolment framework, to engage with younger generations.

Nearly half (49%) of people retiring this year are confident they will be able to afford to leave an inheritance despite on-going financial pressure, according to a survey from Prudential.

Businesses running final-salary pensions are being "clouted" by the government's quantitative easing (QE) programme, says the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF).

Private sector workers are six times more likely to receive a range of employee benefits such as private medical insurance (PMI) and income protection than public sector staff, research has claimed.