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Standard Life's SIPP platform has brought its total number of properties under management to 1,000 in less than five years with its latest commercial property addition.

Nearly half of employers with defined benefit schemes still open to active members think they will close them to future accrual within three years, Watson Wyatt research suggests.

The Personal Accounts Delivery Authority is set to launch a myth busting programme to explain how the national pension saving scheme will work from 2012.

Enhanced annuities pay out an average 22% more than standard annuities in annual retirement income, research suggests.

Personal accounts will complement and not replace existing pension provision, the head of the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (PADA) says.

Pension providers have come out broadly in support of introducing adviser charging to the group personal pensions (GPP) market.

For some unknown reason I have developed an insatiable appetite for autobiographies in middle age.

Just Retirement, the annuities and equity release specialist, has extended the deadline for a firm offer for the company by private equity bidder Avalon Acquisitions Ltd from 20 August to 25 September 2009.

Recently, we had the opportunity to have a demonstration of ‘Pensions Profiler', one of the suite of products from O&M systems.

A one-size-fits-all approach to adviser charging principles for group personal pensions must be avoided.