Dublin-based IFG has agreed to buy Santander's SIPP and wrap arm, James Hay, in a £35m deal.
Further Government restrictions on higher-rate tax relief risk damaging long-term savings, insurers argue.
Rumours the Government would delay auto-enrolment are false, the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) says.
As many as 150,000 additional people will be caught out by the extension of higher-rate tax relief restrictions.
The individual inheritance tax (IHT) allowance has been frozen at £325,000.
Legal and General (L&G) is rolling out its Annuity Plus to all advisers following a successful pilot last year.
Online access is twice as likely to entice expat savers to open an account compared to best buy rates, Alliance & Leicester International (ALIL) research suggests.
Individual pensions sales fell by 25% in the third quarter of 2009, according to the latest figures from the ABI.
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Standard Life plans to target the high-end SIPP market, as part of an overhaul of its pension proposition.