Pension

The Workplace Retirement Income Commission (WRIC) will deliver its final report four months early.

Personal pension 'churning' for higher commissions is still occurring among IFAs, according to a report published today which has been discredited by the trade body representing independent practitioners.

Replacing tax relief on pensions with a matched savings scheme and setting up a "no-lose lottery" could help plug Britain's savings gap, a think tank said.

Has enough consideration been given to the effectiveness of auto-enrolment?

The RDR finally gets some column inches in the mainstream media, while fund managers are becoming increasingly cautious in a particularly volatile bull market. It's IFAonline's round-up of the weekend's national newspapers...

And five big stories this week were...

The Pensions Ombudsman's (PO) team of legal investigators has been understaffed by a third over the last year due to government restrictions on recruitment.

A former Lloyds TSB adviser turned Labour MP has claimed IFAs and bank advisers are all focused on selling products rather than helping clients.

The pensions and insurance industry must create a long term care (LTC) savings vehicle separate to other products to tackle the problem of growing care needs amongst the elderly, Axa said.

Mark Fawcett, chief investment officer at the National Employment Savings Trusts (NEST), explains how the vehicle's board set up its recommended annuity provider panel.