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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?

Martin Tilley looks at the issues advisers need to bear in mind when recommending scheme pension.

Advisers spend a fair bit of their time explaining jargon-riddled pension documents to their clients.

People paying 50% tax must claim extra tax relief on their pensions before February or risk losing thousands for good, a private bank estimates.

Windsor Life, the closed-book insurer, has rebranded as ReAssure.