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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.

The Pensions Regulator has issued a warning and issued new guidance against the use of inducements in transferring scheme members out of DB schemes.

SEVERAL hundred Standard Life employees are expected to attend an open meeting on the company's proposed pension changes organised by the Amicus trade union today in Edinburgh, says the Scotsman .

A handful of the UK's largest banks and lenders are set to be landed with multi-million pound fines from the Financial Services Authority over the next few weeks for mis-selling payment protection insurance, reports the Independent .

Government pension policy for the over-75s could turn people away from saving in pensions, warns Alliance Trust.

Aegon Scottish Equitable is to expand its property portfolio by adding buy-to-let hotel rooms to its list of investments into self-invested personal pensions.

One of Britain's largest sellers of investment products is preparing to float on the stock market in a move which could net each of its two founders a £240m fortune, says the Sunday Times .