Retirement

In what cynics would have called inevitable, the government yesterday backed down on auto-enrolment plans.

Risk profiling, getting the right balance with pension funds and investing in America were all over the nationals at the weekend. Here's what your clients will be calling you about this week.

Pensioners may be forced to move drawdown provider as many are behind legislative changes, says Hargreaves Lansdown.

SIPP provider Pointon York has taken itself off the market after a two-month sale process.

IFAs are positive about post- RDR developments but uneasy about the bottom line, an Aviva survey has revealed.

Kleinwort Benson has launched a new offshore annuity trust: the COPIA+ Guernsey Retirement Plan.

In this week's Retirement Planner quick fire poll we asked: Where do you see the main areas of growth in the annuity market?

Some customers handle risk differently from others. Mike Morrison explains the virtues of understanding their varying risk tolerances

Trades unions have rejected a government suggestion to hold a 15-minute symbolic strike instead of a day of industrial action over cuts to public sector pensions.