Retirement

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.

The FSA is urging advisers to thoroughly examine SIPP charging structures as alternative personal pension and stakeholder arrangements may be cheaper.

Standard Life has called on the Government to confirm IFAs can ignore the FSA's conduct of business rules and their clients' circumstances when making pension recommendations.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has written to the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority voicing its concerns over Personal Accounts.

A pension scheme ‘confederation' offering to take closed defined benefit (DB) pensions off the balance sheets of companies launches today.

Minister for Pensions Reform Mike O'Brien has called on trustees to cooperate with measures to speed up Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS) payments to people aged 65 and over.

The simplified pensions regime prompted by A-Day has provided a catalyst for pension consolidation business, according to research by Skandia.