Retirement

Robert Pemberton examines how advisers can utilise VCTs and EISs in retirement planning portfolios

The FSA is warning firms to ensure pension savers receive suitable advice when tranferring protected rights into a SIPP.

Aegon UK is set to combine its individual and corporate life and pensions businesses as part of a mini restructure.

New rules allowing protected rights investment in SIPPs could leave savers exposed to huge losses due to a gap in compensation rules, AWD Chase de Vere warns.

Jason Walker, senior manager at AWD Chase de Vere, has warned that the move to include protected rights in SIPPs could leave investors exposed to huge losses in the event of a provider failure.

Xafinity Paymaster, a provider of outsourced pensions administration, is calling on the Pension Regulator to consider personal accounts as the default option for small businesses without pension provision.

Employee membership of occupational pension schemes fell by 400,000 in 2007, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) says.

A free guide for IFAs on the third way retirement product market has been launched.

A challenge to the right of employers to make people retire at 65 has been rejected by a senior legal adviser to the European Court of Justice.