Retirement

A few weeks ago, my six year old granddaughter's kitten was killed on a main road and as my garden is significantly larger than her family's, I was asked to bury it.

Advisers expect to sell more income drawdown products than traditional annuities in the next year, according to research from Lincoln Retirement Income.

Forcing final salary pension schemes to provide guaranteed pension increases costs around £1bn a year more than Gordon Brown's tax raid, according to Watson Wyatt senior consultant Stephen Yeo.

Just Retirement's annuity sales have risen 118% in the past year to £551.6m up from £252.6m the previous year, according to the group's interim results.

One in four people aged 55 and over say they will retire later than the current state retirement age, according to research by Scottish Widows.

FIDELITY International has introduced an IFA referral process for its direct business clients who are interested in investing in its new Personal Pension and have sufficiently complex advice requirements.

There is a huge demand among IFAs and their clients for protected rights to be included in SIPPs, according to Premier Pension Services (PPS).

Resolution's life division reached operating profit of £356m, compared to £150m in the same period last year.

Almost a fifth of parents make sacrifices to their own or their partner's pensions to fund their child's private education, according to research from JPMorgan Asset Management.

Fidelity's direct arm will refer its new Personal Pension clients to local IFAs when their needs are complex enough to require advice, the group announced today.