Retirement

As advisers get to grips with the platform market it will bring real benefits to how they do business. Helen Morrissey reports

Setting up trusts can be a complex process and advisers need to ensure they get the whole process right. Geoffrey Shindler discusses the issues advisers need to bear in mind

An advanced investment platform has become an essential tool in today's retirement planning market, says Alastair Conway

Cuts in pension staff will be "key" to a restructuring at Legal & General (L&G), the insurer says.

Suffolk Life has launched a SIPP guide for IFAs, illustrating how SIPPs can develop through an investor's life to meet their retirement objectives.

Swiss Re is shutting down its variable annuities and pensions business in a bid to scale back its retirement-related activities, Professional Pensions has learned.

Skandia has unveiled a range of ISA support services to help advisers in the run-up to the end of the tax year.

Investors in the LV= with-profits fund will see their policy values fall by an average of 1.2%.

SIPP transfers are set to soar in early 2009 due to the ability to transfer protected rights, according to Fidelity FundsNetwork.

Snow bound a couple of weeks ago, I set to musing about the FSA's paper on pension switching advice and the recently issued suitability assessment template.