Retirement

METLIFE, the global insurance and financial services provider, has launched a SIPP and Trustee Investment Plan (TIP) with other products including investment bonds to follow in 2007.

Aegon Scottish Equitable is planning to launch a new online tool to help manage corporate pensions business following feedback from advisers.

As the Financial Services Authority (FSA) prepares to take on the regulation of personal pensions, including self-invested personal pensions, the lack of applications from providers is causing concerns for some parts of the industry.

Pensioners living abroad could be losing up to £300m a year on their state pension through bank charges and exchange rates.

The Department for Work and Pensions has apologised ‘unreservedly' for its mistake in sending out 26,000 letters details pension rights to the wrong people.

Financial hari-kiri or just plain daft? Whatever you want to call it, single charge commission-paying group personal pensions and stakeholder are defying financial gravity, thanks to the generosity of some providers - or more precisely, their shareholders'...

Parents who continue to fund their children well into adulthood could be risking their own future by not putting enough away for retirement, warns GE Life.

More professionals are using group self-invested personal pensions as a way of buying commercial property following A-Day changes, says Origen.

The Pensions Regulator should not try to take on the role of an economic regulator by looking at the issue of charges in the regulation of defined contribution schemes, warns Standard Life.

Only having one default fund for personal accounts could leave the government open to the risk of being blamed when things go wrong, warns pension experts.