Retirement

Alternatively Secured Pensions are still a useful retirement planning tool, despite the industry's failure to achieve any tax concessions from the Treasury, claims Winterthur Life.

Gordon Brown's decision to cut the basic rate of income tax to 20% was clearly signposted by the proposals for tax relief on personal accounts, claims Standard Life.

The government is being ‘optimistic' about the amount of new savings which will be generated by personal accounts, claims Aegon Scottish Equitable.

Rowanmoor pensions has criticised the government's decision to levy additional tax charges on scheme pensions and annuities to stop pension funds being passed on after death.

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The government's decision to extend the Financial Assistance Scheme for workers who lost their pensions when their employers collapsed, is just more political spin, says a leading pensions campaigner.

The European Parliament's committee of inquiry into the collapse of Equitable Life has unveiled the first draft of its final report.

THE IMA has welcomed the Pensions White Paper personal accounts initiative, deeming it ‘a real opportunity to boost savings'.

The government has reduced proposals for the minimum amount of income which must be drawn from an Alternatively Secured Pension from 65% to 55% of a comparable annuity for a 75 year old, but has retained the unauthorised payment charges on funds left...

Gordon Brown has announced the government is to extend the budget of the Financial Assistance Scheme in an attempt to help all of the 125,000 workers who lost their pensions when their occupational schemes collapsed.