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Martin Palmer, head of corporate pensions marketing at Friends Provident, defends pension charges.

Friends Provident has managed to raise or hold steady final bonus rates on its with-profits policies as markets start to recover.

Employers view NEST as "largely irrelevant" as most will rely on existing employee pension arrangements after 2012, according to a new study.

Zurich Life UK will offer Legal & General (L&G) annuity products alongside its own in bid to improve its at retirement offering.

Origen Financial Services, an Aegon-owned national IFA, today launches Annuitas, an annuity and advice service aimed at IFAs.

Equitable Life is maintaining an interim bonus of 3.5% per annum for policyholders after announcing its solvency ratio had improved.

The government's proposals to remove the age-75 annuitisation rule and simplify income drawdown are a step in the right direction but still "missing a big opportunity", Skandia says.

There are one million fewer pensioners living in poverty than there were in 2000, according to the latest figures from the ONS.

Savers are facing a rare conundrum about whether to lock into a lifetime annuity amid unprecedented economic uncertainty, Hargreaves Lansdown says.

The average household with someone aged over 75 will lose £2,200 worth of public services per year by 2015, research from Age UK shows.