Retirement

Some SIPP providers are failing investors by flooding the specialist products with their own funds - rendering them little more than insured personal pensions.

IFAs with clients retiring after 2010 cannot use the DWP's pension forecasting service until 2008.

It's part of human nature to think that you are the only one going through an experience.

The Government has appointed Tim Jones as chief executive of the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority.

The Government could sustain defined benefit (DB) schemes by deregulation and less intervention, says the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF).

Changes in defined benefit (DB) pension provision could open opportunities for investment managers, according to Threadneedle.

Winterthur has appointed a new investment distribution manager, pensions development manager and two business development managers to its team.

Consumers should register transitional protection of their pension benefits sooner rather than later to avoid significant tax penalties, urges management consultancy Watson Wyatt.

Premier Pensions Services (PPS) has launched a survey to find out what IFAs want in the SIPPs market.

Personal accounts and SIPPs will dominate the pensions market, says John Moret, director of sales and marketing at Suffolk Life.