Retirement

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.

Standard Life has confirmed it is considering a cash and shares offer for Resolution.

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.