Retirement

The Pensions Regulator aims to strengthen defined benefit scheme funding in 2007 and 2008, according to its annual report.

The proposed £8.3bn merger of Resolution and Friends Provident has led to a frenzy of speculation on the motivation behind the deal.

The amount of equity released in the UK via equity release products has risen by a third in the first half of 2007 due to rising house prices, according to the UK Equity Release Market Monitor.

Another White Paper, another Government response. Forgive me for feeling blasé, but pension consultations have become ten-a-penny.

The average IFA plans to retire at 62, according to research from financial services company MetLife.

Gone are the days when mum and dad spent their retirement weeding the allotment and taking one holiday a year.

Canada Life has relaunched its annuity growth account (AGA) seven years after the product hit the market.

Amendments to the Pensions Bill, which would have allowed the Government to supplement the Financial Assistance Scheme via a Lifeboat Fund, have been overturned by Parliament.

Young people are ‘too cautious' with their top-up pension savings, according to consultants Watson Wyatt.

The rate of inflation facing the over-75s fell from 3.4% to 3.1% in June but it remains higher than the inflation rates facing other age groups, according to data from Alliance Trust, the financial services group.