Regulation

The Association of Professional Financial Advisers (APFA) has called on the regulator to issue clear guidelines on adviser liability when handling pension transfers involving 'insistent' clients.

A law firm has launched a complaint investigation service for advisers to help them head off grievances before they reach the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS).

The death of the ‘once and done' pension plan

Life insurers received three times more telephone calls than average in the week following the implementation of pensions freedom, figures show.

The Green Party has pledged to reform private pensions, channeling some of the money spent on pension relief towards creating a "more generous" state pension.

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has announced plans for a retirement ‘window' allowing pensioners to take a slightly lower weekly state pension from the age of 65.

The Liberal Democrats want to enshrine the ‘triple lock' on the state pension into law and raise the tax-free allowance to £12,500 as the party unveiled its manifesto ahead of next month's general election.

Assessing the Tory IHT/pension tax relief pledge

The Personal Finance Society (PFS) is in discussions with the regulator and government to introduce additional safeguards to defined benefit (DB) pension transfers where the client wants to act against the advice they received.

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