pensions

Tomorrow we should see the next phase of the government's plans to reform financial services in the interests of consumers, when the Queen delivers her annual Opening of State Parliament speech.

People in the Southeast and women in particular will find retirement a struggle, according to the results of research published by JP Morgan INVEST.

Over 7,000 names are already on the petition for Alternatively Secured Pension rules intermediary firm Hargreaves Lansdown is looking to pull together by 20 November ahead of the Pre-Budget Report.

Almost half of all final salary pension schemes will close within five years, according to research by Alexander Forbes Financial Services, reports the Guardian .

Stonehaven Equity Release has become the latest member of SHIP, Safe Home Income Plans, the industry body representing equity release providers.

Women are still likely to be at a financial disadvantage to men at retirement despite the government's proposed reforms to the State pension and personal accounts, suggests research produced for Scottish Widows.

Aegon UK has seen its new business sales rise again as a result of changes to A-Day, but distribution division Positive Solutions is named among assets which collectively are listed as operating at a loss, according to the latest figures.

FTSE 100 companies are consistently understating the life expectancy of people in their retirement schemes in a move which disguises the real size of pension deficits, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Growth of Standard Life's sales has been heavily dominated this year by the pension reforms of A-Day, according to the life insurer's latest business figures.

It's shaping up to be an autumn crammed full of government announcements on pensions reform, including personal accounts.