Regulation

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has called on the Money Advice Service (MAS) and The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) to deliver the government's at-retirement guidance guarantee.

More advisers are worried about their clients incurring lifetime allowance (LTA) tax charges, according to retirement wealth platform James Hay Partnership, which saw queries around the upper contribution limit spike in the last quarter.

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Sweeping pension and annuity reforms will be the centrepiece of the Queen's Speech later this morning.

Chancellor George Osborne is in danger of emulating Robert Maxwell "as a destroyer of pension savings" with plans for a retirement 'guidance guarantee', Tom McPhail has warned.

Workers are to be given the option of saving into new 'collective' pension schemes which ministers believe could boost their incomes by up to 30%, under plans to be unveiled in the Queen's Speech later this week.

Product providers should have no role in delivering free retirement guidance, following the 'advice for all' proposals in the Budget, Legal & General (L&G) chief executive Nigel Wilson has said.

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has warned that Labour's recently announced plans to extend auto-enrolment to lower earners would "damage businesses" while "failing to help low earners".

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) is facing claims worth around £2.55m for 12 investment and life & pensions firms newly declared in default - which would need to be paid for by investment adviser levypayers.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has almost doubled the amount it will spend on auto-enrolment (AE) enforcement in 2014/15.