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Vince Smith Hughes talks to Retirement Planner about the challenges facing retirement advisers and how adequate assessment of risk is all important when choosing an at-retirement product.

In this week's Retirement Planner quick fire poll we ask: Following Grant Shapp's comments, do you think retirees should downsize to free up larger properties for young families?

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

Fiona Murphy asks SIPP providers how the industry can restore adviser confidence in esoteric investments.

In December the ABI launched a consultation into improving the shopping around process for retirement income. Helen Morrissey asks whether the proposed processes go far enough to solve this issue.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has launched a campaign to protect consumers from "predatory" practices by pension providers and banks.

The boom in SIPP sales that has seen numbers of the products grow to 700,000 is over, a former James Hay Partnership director has said.

The government is making 10,000 compensation payments to Equitable Life victims every week, Mark Hoban, financial secretary to the Treasury, has announced.

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has announced changes to allow investors more flexibility when organising their annual drawdown reviews.

In this week's Retirement Planner quick fire poll we ask: Are you currently checking all of your clients to see whether they should protect their funds against the lifetime allowance reduction in April?