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Hornbuckle Mitchell is developing an online SIPP to be launched in late 2012 or early 2013.

Retirement Planner's round-up of the top pension stories this week.

In this week's quick fire poll we ask: Following recent announcements that pension providers are freezing annual bonus payments, are you looking at moving your clients away from with-profits funds?

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Fiona Murphy asks advisers why home reversion plans are the underdogs of equity release and where the product can be used to a client's advantage.

Half of pre-retirees (46%) would consider retiring to a cheaper country to get better value for money, according to a survey from the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF).

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is investigating the "aggressive promotion" of using intellectual property (IP) to borrow money from small self-administered pension schemes (SSAS).

Over 70% of SIPP and SSAS providers think last year's reduction in maximum drawdown rates was wrong, according to research by the Association of Member Directed Pension Schemes (AMPS.)

The FSA has proposed changes to the way pension transfer values are calculated.

NOW: Pensions, the pension scheme pitched as a simple, low-cost option for auto-enrolment, has launched a series of comedy videos sending up the UK savings industry.