Hargreaves Lansdown

Winterthur Life is calling on the government to drop its opposition to Alternatively Secured Pensions, which it calls a ‘ludicrous state of affairs'.

Hargreaves Lansdown is launching a major campaign to try and keep Alternatively Secured Pensions open to all consumers.

Industry bodies have welcomed the Treasury's decision to allow a wider net of firms to offer pension tax-wrapper products to consumers from 2007, but it is predicted consumers are still more likely to hold pensions through brand-name life companies.

Close to four in ten current Sipp investors would look to use their Sipp for property purchase, following new pension rules post A-Day, research indicates.

A pensions expert says it is too late to backtrack on pensions simplification, with the wheels already in motion towards 6 April 2006.

Hargreaves Lansdown-developed FundsLibrary has been adopted by FundsNetwork, which today announces free access to the reports and accounts of most of the 900-odd funds on its platform.