Retirement

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.

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.