Retirement

Clerical Medical has published the second in its series of advice modules for intermediaries.

A-Day and demutualisation Standard Life to lose £100m from its life and pensions pre-tax operating profit, according to its half-year figures.

Pension funds are in danger of underestimating the life expectancy of too many of their members, according to Pensions Regulator chairman David Norgrove.

Personal accounts will just be "another complicated tier of pensions provision", says Labour MP Frank Field.

An emerging "sandwich" generation of retirees could explain why many feel they need to work into their retirement.

There is a 'menu of possibilities lurking behind' the two proposed models for personal accounts, says a senior official from the Department for Work and Pensions.

Proposals for personal accounts have moved away from a general low-cost scheme to targeting a specific group of undersavers, says the National Association of Pension Funds.

The Conservative Party has called on the government to press ahead with the state pension reforms, including restoration of the link to earnings.

A noteworthy aspect of recent pensions reforms has been the willingness of senior civil servants to engage actively with stakeholders. The image of faceless bureaucrats is no longer appropriate and, in person, the top people in Whitehall are generally...

The first Pensions Bill on state pension reforms could be delayed until the spring.