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This week's Retirement Planner quick-fire poll asks: Do you believe capped drawdown limits should be increased?

The UK insurance industry is urging the FSA to push ahead with some parts of the Solvency II regime at the start of 2013, despite the fact the rest of the continent is likely to delay until 2014.

Defaqto and other ratings agencies have been attacked for "driving the wrong behaviour" by encouraging product complexity and being "in danger of misleading consumers".

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The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has today published guidelines attacking "payment for failure".

The Association of British Insurers' (ABI) annuity code of conduct is not radical enough, Tom McPhail, head of pensions research at Hargreaves Lansdown said.

Helen Morrissey looks at the ABI's recent proposals to increase use of the open market option and asks if they go far enough.

Advisers have welcomed plans to introduce a compulsory code of practice for insurers which is designed to encourage consumers to shop around for an appropriate annuity when they approach retirement.

Almost 30 million protection policies were in force last year with consumers receiving over £32m per day in benefits, according to the ABI.

Independent financial advisers wrote more than three quarters of the life and pensions business in 2010, according to figures from the Association of British Insurers (ABI).