Retirement

ZURICH has enhanced its pension drawdown plan, adding a new protected rights drawdown facility, new SIPP and nil income enhancement.

Overcautious advice is preventing pension scheme trustees from making important rule changes to their schemes, claims First Actuarial.

The latest instalment of the online ‘ Trustee Toolkit' covering strategic investment has been released by the Pensions Regulator.

Over 90% of IFAs believe pensions, including personal accounts, cannot be distributed in the workplace safely if generic advice is the only available option.

A LIFE company has claimed most young people will struggle to achieve the same lifestyle as older UK residents when they eventually retire.

Sipp providers face fresh challenges from all angles now new sipp regulations have come into force, argues a Defaqto report.

Zurich has enhanced its drawdown proposition by including the ability to drawdown income from protected rights.

A-Day changes may have increased pensions business, but almost half of advisers believe the complexity and compliance burden they face has also grown over the last year.

A-day has been part of my life for the last five years. I have been involved with its development, from its original launch in the Green Paper in December 2002 (Simplifying the taxation of pensions: increasing of choice and flexibility for all).

PENSIONS business for advisers has soared since A-Day but with the boom has come greater complexity and a heavier compliance burden.