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Pension experts have broadly welcomed Treasury plans to consult on allowing access to 25% of pension savings tax free before retirement but warn the new rules must be kept as simple as possible.

Mike Farrell, head of sales and marketing at Royal Liver Assurance, has joined LV= as head of protection sales.

Michael Wright, head of fixed income at LV Asset Management, explains how bond yield curves operate.

Insurers LV=, Zurich, Friends Provident and Fortis are among this year's Gold Standard Award winners.

Protection products will be ‘pivotal' to adviser firms' future prosperity, according to Sesame Bankhall.

LV= won the award for the Best Lifetime Mortgage provider at the 2010 Equity Release awards.

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A large number of over-50s will opt to cut their pension contributions in order to cover debt repayments if interest rates rise this week, research from LV= suggests.

LV= is offering a 5% discount on income protection for the rest of the year.