pensions

Provision remains a key driver of business for financial advisers, according to research from Rowanmore Pensions.

Philip Hammond, shadow work and pensions secretary, hit out yesterday at the government's failure to help people who lost their life savings when company schemes went bust, says the Daily Telegraph .

Let's face it - advising someone on whether they should transfer their deferred benefits out of a final salary scheme is one of the trickiest things for pensions advisers.

A straw poll of IFAonline readers is predicting the next government will spring a u-turn on all pensions changes recently announced.

Clerical Medical has launched an adviser guide on concurrency rules which it says could help advisers and their clients tap into an extra £46bn of tax relief available since A-Day.

Norwich Union has extended the deadline for its closure to new pension and annuity business in the Channel Islands and Isle of Man until June.

HSBC has teamed up with insurer Standard Life to target self-invested personal pensions at small to medium businesses and commercial customers of the bank.

The light dusting of precipitation otherwise known as snow did its usual trick of making the UK underperform for a day or two this week.

Trevor Matthews, chief executive of UK life and pensions at Standard Life, was this morning forced to apologise to staff for racist comments made in an internal pensions presentation.

It's not even at the end of January yet, and instead of easing us back into things at a nice easy pace the government is cracking the whip on pensions.