Retirement

Suffolk Life has launched a trust-based MasterSIPP enabling its customers to self-invest protected rights money alongside non-protected rights for the first time.

Large companies offer 70% of senior hires a defined contribution (DC) pension, according to research from Watson Wyatt.

Tomorrow, Swiss Re's retirement specialist, will not remove the option to convert pension policies to self invested personal pensions (SIPPs) at the end of the year.

More than 60% of Britons do not take advice about how best to minimise their inheritance tax (IHT) liabilities, according to research from Bradford & Bingley.

The MetLife Investment Bond just got better. For a limited time only, new investments into the Bond enjoy a 1.5% allocation rate .

The Conservative Party would begin making its first compensation payments to people who lost their pensions when their employers went out of business within three months of coming into power.

Pension Protection Fund (PPF) proposals aimed at giving defined benefit (DB) pension schemes greater planning certainty would lead to unfair levies, says First Actuarial.

Employer contributions to personal pensions have grown faster than payments made to occupational schemes over the last five years, according to figures from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

More than 80% of IFAs say clients use alternatives to pensions in retirement planning, according to a report by financial services publisher Tax Briefs.

More than three million people, or 7%, rely on property investments to fund their retirement, according to research from Baring Asset Management.