Retirement

Question: I have found Income Drawdown funds and products from a variety of providers to be remarkably similar to a personal pension. What assurances can my clients receive that an Income Drawdown plan is a more viable option or separate alternative?...

Early auto-enrolment could increase pension pots by as much as 15% and help employers, industry figures say.

MetLife has appointed Adam Dooley as UK sales director, completing its senior management team.

Q. How have you seen people change their retirement planning strategies to weather the storm of current economic turbulence?

Growth of the annuity market - Over the next five years, the ‘at retirement market' is predicted to grow to £23.1 billion, so it is hardly surprising that so many retirement products such as variable and fixed term annuities have launched into the annuity...

The Labour party will not scrap the tax relief on pensions for people who earn less than £150,000 a year, secretary of state for work and pensions Yvette Cooper says.

Rowanmoor Pensions has launched a guide to SIPP commercial property purchases.

Just Retirement sales jumped 16.4% in the first quarter of its financial year, helped by a spike in equity release business.

More Equitable Life victims may now be eligible for compensation, following a High Court appeal.

Danish pension fund and administration provider ATP has pulled out of the running for the personal accounts administration contract, PADA has confirmed.