Retirement

If you are 50 years of age or celebrating your fiftieth birthday between 6 October 2009 and 5 April 2010 and have been considering putting a little bit more money away into an Individual Savings Account (ISA), now is the time to take advantage.

Former Downing Street pensions' adviser Ros Altmann has lashed out at the Government's commitment to bankers' pensions.

The vast majority of advisers are concerned people are saving "too little too late" for their retirement, research suggests.

Charges on inheritance tax (IHT) payments made after the six month deadline are increasing, the Treasury has announced.

Provider ‘wake-up' letters to pension clients nearing retirement arrive years too late, are too complex and should be scrapped, Just Retirement says.

Scottish Life has updated its series of technical information leaflets on income drawdown for financial advisers.

John Moret, director of sales and marketing at Suffolk Life, examines recent reports from the FSA concerning pension transfers and explains how the industry is likely to change

LV= has become the latest firm to join the decumulation action group headed by Tom McPhail.

Government plans to gradually raise the retirement age to 68 may be increased to 70, the head of the Pensions Regulator predicts.

In the first of our new series of comment pieces, Helen Morrissey and David Stevenson give their views on annuitisation.