Retirement

Suffolk Life has questioned whether the regulation of Self Invested Personal Pensions put in place by the Financial Services Authority earlier this month will achieve all its aims.

ADVISERS believe more could still be done to raise awareness of SIPPs, despite their recent rise in popularity.

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Scottish Life new pensions business has fallen 9% in the first quarter of the year compared to the same period in 2006, following a slump in the group pensions sector.

Around £2bn is invested in occupational pension schemes which may not be suitable for the customer, Clerical Medical estimates.

Around 15,000 women will fail to qualify for entitlement to the basic state pension, despite earning enough money from multiple jobs to put them above the Lower Earnings Limit, claims the Department for Work and Pensions.

FIDELITY has issued a major challenge to UK pension providers with the launch of seven retirement funds giving access to the firm's UK range and a number of ways of taking income in retirement.

At least one large company with a defined benefit scheme is considering reopening the pension but on a risk-sharing basis, claims the Pensions Regulator.

Time is a strange construct; sometimes it seems to go ever so slowly and other times far too fast. In the world of pensions, this is further confused by the fact that a year does not always last 365 days.

The Pensions Regulator is planning to issue a series of questions which trustees should ask advisers to determine the suitability of advice and how to manage conflicts of interest.