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Gordon Brown's choice of General Election date will affect when the state pension must be linked to earnings, making a late election bad for pensioners but good for taxpayers, according to Towers Watson.

In the case of those people approaching retirement or those who have recently retired, the stock market volatility of the last two years has caused the potential for some real financial hardship.

UK pension funds recorded their highest returns for four years in 2009 - a year which also saw FTSE 100 companies rocked by record deficits.

The collapse of the Robert Gaines-Cooper case could see high net worth individuals flock to Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Schemes (QROPS) in a bid to dodge the taxman.

Matt Ward, wealth management consultant at Defaqto, on how IFAs have responded to the FSA's SIPP review.

Scottish Life is to switch the underlying investment of its UK Equity Core Plus Pension Fund to Cazenove UK Growth & Income.

Higher-rate tax payers should pile cash into their pensions this year, as it may not be possible to get 40% tax relief in the future, says the managing director of Alan Steel Asset Management (ASAM).

IFAs could face substantial tax penalties if they offer inheritance tax advice, according to the Tax Advice Network.

London & Colonial are poised to launch a Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Scheme (QROPS) in Gibraltar, following reports of an end to a tax dispute in the territory.

It is clear that human beings are far from the ideal of homo economicus. Indeed, we make non-optimal choices all the time.