Retirement

The UK's state pension ranks the worst in Europe, according to research by employee benefit consultant Aon Consulting.

The Pensions Regulator and the FSA have published an overview of the requirements relating to contract-based schemes and the regulators' own regimes.

Many employees in defined contribution (DC) company pension schemes can expect contributions of up to 15% of their salary which is the level used by the Pension Commission in its illustrations of pension outcomes.

The Lifetime SIPP Company has appointed Sylvie Desmond as non-executive director.

aap, an endowment trader, has launched an endowment policy process website for IFAs.

Truestone Employee Benefits, a division of Truestone Asset Management, will host a seminar on trusteeship in the 21st Century.

A ‘pensions income disregard' could help reduce the problem caused by trying to fit means-tested benefits into the new personal accounts system, according to the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI).

The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has proposed to cut the number of voluntary principles for pension scheme trustees from 10 to six in a bid to update the code.

I attended a pensions and divorce workshop in London last week. It made a nice change to be going somewhere as a delegate rather than having to speak!

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