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A financial adviser has launched a pension scheme to directly compete with the government-backed, and taxpayer funded, National Employment Savings Trust (NEST).

Steve Lewis, founder of Retirement Partnership, has been hired by LV= as head of distribution for retirement products.

Helen Morrissey looks at why many people don't consider estate planning and asks what advisers can do to tackle this lack of awareness

Aviva is reviewing more than half of its jobs in Ireland as it plans to move its Dublin headquarters to London, according to reports.

Retirement Planner's roundup of the top pension stories.

Pension professionals, advisers, businesses and consumer groups have responded to a Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) inquiry into auto-enrolment and the National Employment Savings Trust.

Public sector workers employed in higher education should be allowed to enrol into the National Employment Savings Trust NEST), universities and colleges say.

The government must address the record drop in public confidence in pensions or risk mass opt-outs from auto-enrolment, a trade body warns.

Financial secretary to the Treasury Mark Hoban has said the government will not allow European regulators to overrule it on pensions.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has confirmed the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will this autumn propose reforms to the system of transferring small pension pots.