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Tax rules covering employer asset-backed contributions to final salary pension schemes are the latest to come under the taxman's scrutiny with a consultation launched this week.

Just Retirement has launched a new form of third way annuity with the first new capped drawdown product on the market since the new pension rules came into force.

The FSA is to fire a warning shot about firms which encourage savers to borrow money against their pensions.

Equity Trust, the company which owns Singapore qualifying recognised overseas pension scheme (QROPS) Panthera, has vowed to fight a high court decision to ban its scheme.

Each month we ask leading industry figures to answer one big question... As we come to the first anniversary of the coalition government, what do you think about their approach to retirement policy reform?

In this month's Inquiry, Helen Morrissey assesses the results of our survey on the ­ at-retirement market and asks how the advent of flexible drawdown will affect the market

Around three million people in the UK are pinning their hopes for a comfortable retirement on a later-life lottery win, according to the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF).

Most workers will choose not to opt out of auto-enrolment when it comes into force from 2012, an Aviva report suggests.

The Treasury will not allow the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to alter the proposals for raising the state pension age (SPA), a pensions lawyer said.

Singapore-based qualifying recognised overseas pension scheme (QROPS) trustee Equity Trust has lost its latest hearing in a high court, leaving investors open to a potential 50% tax charge.