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This week's Retirement Planner quick-fire poll asks: Are you recommending fixed term annuities for your clients?

Retirement Planner's round up of the week's key pension stories

Execution-only stockbroker JPJShare.com, a subsidiary of the Isle of Man company Rivington Street Holdings, has launched a SIPP with no annual management charge (AMC).

Introducing a flat-rate state pension of around £140 per week will cut the number of pensioners living below the poverty line, the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) said.

Mark Fawcett, chief investment officer at the National Employment Savings Trusts (NEST), explains how the vehicle's board set up its recommended annuity provider panel.

The Treasury will publish accounts drawn up in the same way as those of listed companies for the first time this week, and include pension liabilities on the balance sheet, as part of the Office for Budget Responsibility's (OBR) assessment of public finances....

Sixteen-year old Will Kneeshaw, who undertook a work experience placement at Incisive Media, publisher of IFAonline and Professional Adviser, says although pensions are "not the sort of thing that would get me up in the morning", he understands that starting...

The Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) has launched an inquiry into auto-enrolment and the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST).

The government must help pension savers tackle their own longevity risk by permitting deferred annuities within pension plans, MetLife has said.

SIPP provider Hornbuckle Mitchell has passed its £279,667 Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) interim levy on to investors, its accounts reveal.