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Savers may be offered tax-free individual savings accounts (ISAs) to invest in schemes to help the poor.

Following its review into ­allowing early access to pensions savings, the government decided there is insufficient evidence that such a move would encourage saving.

Heath Lambert Employee Benefits now offers a workplace SIPP and ISA from Wealth at Work on its benefits platform.

The Investment Management Association (IMA) has written to the Treasury urging the government to consider providing contributions to Junior ISAs at birth.

Matthew Stephens weighs up how ISAs and pensions can complement each other in a retirement planning strategy

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).

Alliance Trust has published its top 20 most popular funds purchased through platform i.nvest for SIPPs and ISA investments over the 2010/11 tax year.

The government should allow investors to move assets between different wrappers more easily to aid retirement saving, Tom McPhail, head of pensions research at Hargreaves Lansdown said.

Leaving aside the question of advice, do you see simple protection products as a threat to IFAs or a stepping stone for clients? Should IFAs sell them alongside fully featured products?

The Treasury will not use tax incentives to encourage more workplace saving for retirement, Tom McPhail, head of pensions research at Hargeaves Lansdown said.