pensions

IFAs need to prepare a checklist and start reviewing their clients' portfolios NOW if they want to avoid being accused of giving less than adequate advise on pending pensions legislation, warns Winterthur Life.

Presenting estimates of how much money people could expect to retire on will encourage them to stop burying their heads in the sand, says the Department for Work and Pensions.

Pension scheme members currently eligible to more than 25% tax-free cash risk losing out if they transfer to another pension arrangement post A-day, warns pensions expert Steve Bee.

WHILE THE NATION'S media is firmly fixed on the Butler report, the Guardian's business pages reveal senior civil servants, judges and MPs will escape the proposed higher pension tax on any contributions over £1.5m which could lead to accusations of...

THE CONSERVATIVE Party will ABOLISH the Financial Services Authority in its current form if it wins the next general election, according to a report in this weekend's Sunday Telegraph.

Consumers should be scared into long-term savings if Britain is to avoid seeing the current savings gap turn into a full-blown pensions crisis, warns a pension expert.

The Pensions Advisory Service has received almost 20% more complaints from members of occupational and personal pension schemes over the last 12 months than it did during the previous year.

Around 65,000 pension scheme members have already suffered extensive losses following their schemes being wound-up by insolvent employers, reveals new findings by the Department for Work and Pensions.

Research on behalf of the Equal Opportunities Commission into the arguments for and against unisex annuities has led the Pensions Policy Institute to conclude there are no good reasons why such policy should not be implemented.

Employees from 100 selected firms will start receiving pension information packs devised by the Department for Work and Pensions as part of a pilot to test the impact of savings advice in the workplace.