Hargreaves Lansdown

Difficult conditions in the income drawdown market mean some clients can now get more income from a standard annuity. Helen Morrissey looks at what this means for the industry

Pensioners are being left "permanently impoverished" by quantitative easing (QE) and analysis from the Bank of England (BoE) denying negative impacts is wrong, Ros Altmann has said.

Adrian Lowcock has left Bestinvest to join Hargreaves Lansdown.

Chris Read looks at the rapidly expanding platform market and asks how it need to evolve to more fully service the retirement market.

Retirement Planner's round-up of the top pensions stories this week.

F&C has launched a Junior ISA, giving access to its range of investment trusts for the 2012-2013 tax year.

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The 400,000 people who have dropped out of personal pension saving since 2008 are unlikely to make up the contributions later in life and will face reduced income in retirement, Axa Wealth has warned.

The government has been urged to consider merging The Pensions Regulator (TPR) and Financial Services Authority (FSA) after a National Audit Office (NAO) report condemned the current system of DC regulation.