pensions

Pensioners living abroad could be losing up to £300m a year on their state pension through bank charges and exchange rates.

The Department for Work and Pensions has apologised ‘unreservedly' for its mistake in sending out 26,000 letters details pension rights to the wrong people.

Financial hari-kiri or just plain daft? Whatever you want to call it, single charge commission-paying group personal pensions and stakeholder are defying financial gravity, thanks to the generosity of some providers - or more precisely, their shareholders'...

A move by the Treasury to link pensions term assurance to pensions would create considerable costs for providers and advisers, says Andy Milburn, IFA market manager at Royal Liver.

Only having one default fund for personal accounts could leave the government open to the risk of being blamed when things go wrong, warns pension experts.

HM Revenue & Customs have finally published updated guidance on the position of tax relief relating to employer contributions into pensions, confirming the 'wholly & exclusively' rule will only be applied in limited circumstances.

Standard Life saw its life and pensions sales rise by over half in 2006 on the back of key changes at A-Day and a redirection of pensions investments towards sipps.

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.