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Standard Life's Stakeholder with-profits pension plans were hit by market volatility and lost 1.2% during the first half of the year.

The Government is proposing to extend tax anti-avoidance measures in a crack-down on the use of discretionary trusts to dodge inheritance tax (IHT).

Great service will differentiate first class SIPP providers from the rest, writes John Jennings, operations director, Hornbuckle Mitchell.

Steve Latto, head of pensions at Alliance Trust Savings, looks at the different investment options available within a SIPP

Aegon has signed a deal with global wrap provider GBST to help push the insurer's drive into the ‘at retirement' and ‘workplace savings' markets.

The consultation to end compulsory annuitisation should lead to increased flexibility for retirees. Helen Morrissey asks if this is the case.

Prudential will lobby the Government to back down over plans to raise the charge on unused pension funds on death, which it says will disproportionately hit basic-rate taxpayers.

The Government today proposed bringing to an end rules forcing pension investors to buy an annuity at a specific age.

The government is set to scrap the requirement to purchase an annuity and abolish alternatively secured pensions.

Britain's optimism about their retirement is lagging behind the USA and Canada according to research from Sun Life Financial of Canada.