Pensions

Guidance guarantee levy plans will hit advisers ‘disproportionately' hard and in turn increase costs for consumers, according to the Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA).

Aegon has launched a High Income fund intended to help investors take advantage of pension freedoms coming announced in the Budget.

Two recent Financial Ombudsman decisions are crucial reading for the SIPP industry. Fiona Murphy looks at the issues.

Fiona Murphy examines The Pension Ombudsman's delays to decisions on pension liberation fraud and wider concerns about how liberation could shift.

In this week's quick-fire poll we ask: Should pension providers who withdraw from or fail to participate in auto-enrolment be fined?

In this week's Retirement Planner news round-up we highlight five key stories you might have missed over the past seven days.

Advisers have overcome the biggest hurdles they were confronted with as a result of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR), according to a poll, with the number reporting they are still in "survival mode" having halved.

Here we go again… What did we learn from the third SIPP thematic review?

Royal Bank of Scotland could be forced to plug a £5.6bn deficit in its pensions scheme if Scotland votes Yes on Thursday.

Confusion about changes to pension rules will drive a huge surge in demand for pensions advice, according to a FundsNetwork adviser poll.