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Public sector unions are gearing up for a national strike on 30 June to protest against pension changes proposed by Lord Hutton.

This week's Retirement Planner quick-fire poll asks: How would you improve the equity release market?

Financial secretary to the Treasury Mark Hoban has defended auto-enrolment and the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) after a senior pension adviser labeled them the next mis-selling scandal.

Retirement Planner's round-up of this week's key news stories...

It's our quick-fire round-up of the stangest retirement and pensions news this week...

LV= will allow its SIPP customers to use Barclays Stockbrokers' execution-only trading platform to invest their pension assets.

Threadneedle will close down its retail defined contribution (DC) pension business and will advise all investors to move their pension products to Legal and General (L&G).

A mother and daughter kept the corpse of a grandmother hidden in an upstairs bedroom and stole her state pension, a judge ruled.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) may extend the rules of the Financial Assistance Scheme (FAS) to insure pension schemes exempt from the Pension Protection Fund (PPF).

Aegon has launched three new unit-linked guaranteed offshore bonds as part of a boost to its at-retirement proposition.