Retirement

Claims suggesting an investment platform could be used to resolve the issue of protecting tax-free cash when consolidating pensions are unfounded, says Standard Life.

HSBC has teamed up with insurer Standard Life to target self-invested personal pensions at small to medium businesses and commercial customers of the bank.

A service designed to provide advisers with a universal quotation request form for six enhanced annuities providers may not be as simple as intended.

Specialist funds were the most popular form of retail investment in 2006, as the dominance of property funds accounted for almost a quarter of the Oeic market.

A fully revised version of its Code of Guidance has been published by the Independent Pension Trustee Group.

Rumours two insurance companies have closed their doors to new self-invested personal pension business have been denied by the companies.

The light dusting of precipitation otherwise known as snow did its usual trick of making the UK underperform for a day or two this week.

The generation of over 40s workers are the wealthiest potential retirees in real terms than previous generations, yet 30% have never seen a financial adviser, claims Halifax Financial Services.

A three-month extension has been granted to the EU Committee investigating the collapse of Equitable Life.

A relative of mine recently recarpeted her hallway. She's a single mum so funds are tight, and she asked a friend in the trade how much it might cost. He looked at the hallway and suggested it should be no more than £500.