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Can we really afford our pensions system afer all?

The new pensions regime will have a profound effect on the way advisers discuss retirement planning with clients, John Moret says.

The National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) has revealed the list of terminology it will use in its scheme information to make pensions simpler to understand.

Hornbuckle Mitchell will waive its transfer-in fees on full SIPP, single investment SIPP and flexible income pension plans (FIPP) for the first three months of this year.

Specialist life insurer Just Retirement has appointed three senior directors as it seeks to develop its proposition.

Japanese police are investigating a man they believe hid the corpse of his father in a cupboard in order to keep receiving his pension cheques.

Intelligent Pensions (IP) is offering non-advisory ‘lay advocate' roles to IFAs considering exiting the industry due to the pressure of the RDR.

People with several small occupational pensions should be able to group them together for trivial commutation, says Hargreaves Lansdown head of pensions research Tom McPhail.

The number of bankrupt over-65s has increased six times in the past ten years, the Insolvency Service says.

SIPP provider Suffolk Life will hold its fees at 2009 levels for 2011.