pensions

Directors could soon be able to contribute up to £215,000 a year each to their own or their employees' pension schemes without paying any additional tax regardless of salary, says Steve Bee.

US president Franklin Roosevelt's words ending the era of prohibition have come back to haunt the pensions industry with Halifax' suggestion people give up their daily pint and packet of crisps in favour of £3 a day towards their pension pot

Truro-based Worldwide Financial Planning Limited has begun expanding its empire and recruited five staff - including three advisers - from BDO Stoy Hayward Wealth Management in Birmingham.

COMPENSATION COSTS to employees who lost their retirement funds in failed company pensions could be much lower than expected, according to comments from the Association of Corporate Trustees in this morning's Daily Telegraph.

Pensioners still risk breaking pensions legislation if they decide to invest their pension pots into residential property, once simplification rules come into force in April 2006, warns a pension expert.

The Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority has for the first time since stakeholder pensions were introduced three years ago fined an employer for failing to provide its employees with access to a stakeholder pension scheme.

The Department of Work and Pensions' Employers' Pension Provision survey 2003 released today paints a distinctly mixed picture of the state of workplace pension provision.

Some UK employers are already preparing to take advantage of the proposed Pension Protection Fund by winding up schemes as soon as it comes into force next April, warns Stewart Ritchie.

Mortgages could become the new asset class for annuity liabilities when the shortfall in long-term gilts becomes more apparent, suggests the Actuarial Profession.

The government's proposed Pension Protection Fund (PPF) suffers from fundamental flaws and could go the same way as the pension schemes it is supposed to protect, leading actuaries warn.