Pension

Pensions minister Steve Webb will tomorrow join Hargreaves Lansdown as an apprentice for the day.

Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, is "embarrassed" and "irritated" by revelations that the Church of England pension scheme indirectly invested in payday lender Wonga.

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This week on IFAonline.co.uk, we've had Northern Rock sales, Barclays fines and adviser numbers. But how much do you remember?

Standard Life has launched an online auto-enrolment process, designed to facilitate the conversion of current arrangements to qualifying workplace pension schemes.

The assets pension savers are allowed to invest in should be restricted and authorised, to avoid any further scandals like Harlequin, London & Colonial has warned.

Membership of private pensions has hit a new low, according to the Office for National Statistics.

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The current pension tax relief set-up offers significant advantages over ISAs but is poorly understood by savers and ‘radical alternatives' should be explored, a report has concluded.

Neil MacGillivray discusses the impact of recent changes to personal allowances on your clients' pension planning