Pension freedom

In the latest Retirement Planner poll we ask readers to share their opinion on whether providers should offer consumers a default retirement income option…

Partnership Assurance Group, the enhanced annuity specialist, has scrapped plans to issue bonds despite "significant interest" from investors.

While pension savers back the upcoming pension freedoms they are ‘daunted' by the scale of choice on offer and want providers to offer them a default investment or drawdown choice, research has found.

Maximising retirees' tax positions will become all-important post-pension freedoms, giving advisers huge on-platform planning opportunities, Zurich's Alistair Wilson has said.

The Budget freedoms that come into force in April could trigger mis-selling claims worth billions of pounds, law firm Sackers has warned.

Schroders has launched a fund to help defined contribution (DC) members coming up to retirement take advantage of incoming Budget flexibilities.

Saga and Tilney Bestinvest are to launch a joint venture offering investment and financial planning services to the UK's over 50s.

A man in bankruptcy has retained his personal pension after a High Court judge decided he should not be compelled to hand it over under an Income Payments Order (IPO).

Seven out of ten defined contribution (DC) pot holders aged over 55 would prefer pensions to deliver a guaranteed income for life, according to research published by the International Longevity Centre-UK (ILC-UK).

Additional safeguards should be placed on pension freedoms to ensure people do not burn through their pension pots in the first years of retirement or get caught out under tax rules, Age UK has said.