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James Hay will release two SIPPS in Q1 next year to meet the needs of both sophisticated clients and those with more basic requirements.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has announced a DWP experiment in which 2,000 pensioners who have not claimed but are entitled to pension credit will be paid the benefit for 12 weeks.

Eurozone ministers are poised to meet in Brussels as the debt crisis once again threatens the economic stability of the 16-member bloc.

The implementation of NEST and auto-enrolment in 2012 will drive new business for IFAs in the SME sector, according to Aviva CEO Toby Strauss.

The last government made changes to the borrowing rules for UK Registered Pension Schemes which effectively excluded the purchase of commercial property.

Long-term low interest rates are damaging pensions and will cause another financial crash, Ros Altmann will tell the Bank of England (BoE) today.

New EU rules on the solvency of workplace pensions could force some Defined Benefit (DB) schemes to close, the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) warns.

Just Retirement's new business in the three months from April-June 2010 is up 14.9% on the same period last year at £245.5m.

Tata Consultancy Services will administer the NEST national savings scheme until at least 2020, it was confirmed today.

The FSA is considering limiting the role brokers play in assessing customers' affordability by simplifying the criteria they currently use.