pensions

An IFA has called on the government to implement a system where a flat rate pension is provided to all, as pensions in divorce can be particularly destructive for older divorcees.

Financial advisers are proving unwilling to give advice on whether or not to remain contracted into the state second pension, says The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS).

A work till you drop policy in the UK seems an inevitable following comments made by the head of the Pensions Commission, Adair Turner.

The Liberal Democrats are attempting a last-minute coup to close what it sees as a costly pensions tax loophole arising as part of pensions simplification arrangements from April next year.

Torquil Clark is making a major move into the mortgage advice sector after purchasing a mortgage intermediary business previously linked to a national housebuilder.

BRITIAN'S RETIREMENT age will "undoubtedly" rise in an attempt to plug a looming hole in the country's pension funding, says the Guardian this morning.

The Pensions Regulator has published its code of practice regarding ‘notifiable events'.

Employers are now able to promote group personal pension and stakeholder pension schemes to their employees, under changes made by the Treasury to the Financial Promotions Order (FPO) which start today.

The Trade Unions Congress (TUC) says the state pension age could be maintained at 65 if the government met its employment targets.

Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has said it will offer no protection for any Self Invested Personal Pension (Sipp)borrowing agreed before A-Day where funds are drawn down after the introduction of pension simplification rules on 6 April 2006.