Retirement

Mercer has criticized the Department for Work and Pension's (DWP) proposed change to the Pensions Bill, which would ban employers from providing non pension savings alternatives to personal accounts.

More work must be done to build understanding of workforce pension benefits as research reveals five million people are unaware of pension tax relief, according to The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF).

Zurich has rolled out two new individual pensions trusts designed to ensure effective estate planning.

Zurich has launched two new individual pensions trusts, the Pensions Discretionary (2 years) Trust and the Pensions Discretionary (80 years) Trust.

Making it illegal for employers to encourage or force workers to opt out of their pension schemes could create new problems in the industry, Scottish Widows warns.

The FSA has only an ‘acceptable' score in the areas of mortgage regulation and regulation of small firms for the last financial year, according to the Financial Services Consumer Panel (FSCP) Annual Report .

Pensions Minister Mike O'Brien says encouraging workers not to save in a workplace pension scheme will become unlawful under proposed changes to the Pensions Bill.

The Financial Services Consumer Panel (FSCP) has called for the FSA to ensure that its TCF proposals are beneficial to consumers.

The escalating cost of education is impacting parents' pension savings, according to Metlife Europe.

Pensioner inflation could erode entire monthly income within two decades of retirement, according to Standard Life.