Retirement

Liberal Democrat plans for a ‘greener' tax system which includes abolishing higher rate tax relief on pensions have been endorsed at the Party Conference.

As the debate over alternatively secured pensions (Asp) seems to have gone ominously quiet, its good to know there are still people thinking outside the pensions box.

One in five members of defined benefit schemes could discover they will only receive 50-60% of their pension if their scheme was to wind up now.

The pensions white paper risks being ‘too little, too late' says the Society of Pension Consultants.

The Pension Protection Fund has persuaded the government to change the regulations to make it easier for scheme actuaries to complete section 179 and section 143 valuations.

The trustee board of the charity Life Academy have nominated Alan Pickering to be their next chairman.

Investors hoping to take advantage of the opportunity to put halls of residence into their self-invested personal pension will have to meet a strict set of criteria.

A proposal by the Law Commission on rights relating to co-habiting couples could see pension sharing orders becoming more commonplace.

The government is proposing to remove the restrictions surrounding protected rights in defined contribution schemes.

The basic state pension will last pensioners of tomorrow only three days, according to Axa.