Retirement

Suffolk Life says new applications for SIPPs have grown 10% in the first three months of the year.

Axa has launched a scheme to allow investors to buy hotel rooms as part of its SIPP.

Nearly a third of IFAs expect clients to be saving less into their pensions with an average reduction of around 21%, new research from MetLife Europe reveals.

Rowanmoor Pensions has appointed Mark Randell as a non-regulated senior consultant within the southern consultancy team.

A total of 80% of trustees predict their defined benefit (DB) pension schemes will still exist in 10 years, according to Aon Consulting.

A little-known standard for UK adviser firms automatically embeds the FSA's treating customers fairly (TCF) principles, the firm behind it claims.

Suffolk Life saw requests to transfer properties into SIPPs increase seven times to 35 in the week before the capital gains tax (CGT) rate change this month.

Almost a third of advisers who did not undertake SIPP business before A-Day have advised on the products since April 2006, according to research by LV=.

Neil Marsh, managing director of SIPP administrator Hornbuckle Mitchell, died on Tuesday after battling cancer for two and a half years.

A 'pension ISA' has been mooted by Martyn Laverick, head of group marketing at AWD Chase De Vere, as the possible solution to the nation's pensions deficit.