Retirement

According to the latest AEGON research the UK population has lost the habit of saving for retirement. Rachel Vahey highlights the consequences of allowing this to continue

An eleventh-hour bid to encourage Equitable Life with-profit annuitants to vote in favour of transferring their policies to Prudential will do little to quell scepticism over the move.

Defined benefit (DB) pension schemes could suffer from the credit crunch, warns actuary Lane Clark & Peacock (LC&P).

UK defined benefit pension schemes could be among the indirect casualties of the fall-out from the US sub-prime mortgage crisis, according to Lane Clark & Peacock.

Average contributions will not give enough support to employees in retirement, according to research by business consultancy Mercer.

Scottish Life has announced its intention to expand its individual pensions business through IFAs by appointing Keith MacPherson as head of individual business.

The Pensions Regulator has written to the Occupational Pensions Trusts (OPT) slamming suggestions the regulator endorses the trust.

The FSA today pledges to step up its campaign to smoke out firms failing to meet its requirements for selling Payment Protection Insurance (PPI).

Advisers and consumers face danger of confusion over annuities and income drawdown products, according to Canada Life.

The Pensions Regulator has questionned whether a new scheme offering to take closed defined benefit (DB) pensions off company balance sheets is in the best interests of trustees.