Regulation

Remembering pension transfer permissions

Hopes, fears, nonchalance: Advisers react to the election results

PP gauges industry opinion on Webb's five years as pensions minister

Liberal Democrat MP Steve Webb, who has served as pensions minister for the last five years, has lost his parliamentary seat.

Half of advisers refuse to implement pension transfers out of defined benefit (DB) schemes amid worries the regulator would hold them to account further down the line, according to research.

Legal & General (L&G) has generated a 'record' £330m in cash in the first quarter of the year as changes to its business following the pension reforms paid off.

As many as 6,000 people have accessed the Money Advice Service's (MAS) retirement adviser directory in its first month of operation, the consumer body has said.

A lack of regulatory guidance around insistent client handling could lead to the emergence of specialist firms who will seek to exploit retirees for a quick income, an adviser has warned.

Pension liberation scams have pushed four people who used them to take their own lives after realising they had lost much of their retirement fund, according to a victims campaigner.

How to operate in the new pension transfer world