Retirement

Financial education, particularly in the workplace, is the only way to avoid a defined benefit scheme "financial Armageddon", warns Alan Pickering.

The government is planning to hold a seminar on the issue of means-testing and personal accounts at the end of the month.

Pensions A-Day seems such a long time ago and after the subsequent changes of benefits, did not do exactly what it said on the tin.

Rowanmoor Pensions has announced an expansion of its London operation including the opening of an additional office and the appointment of a new pensions consultant.

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'...