pensions

Aegon UK is planning to build on its entrance to the individual annuities market to become one of the top five companies by the end of next year.

ACTION MUST be taken quickly to fill a dangerous policy vacuum created by the sudden abolition of a new corporate reporting rule, investors and governance activists warn today, reports The Financial Times .

Many occupational pension schemes could be in breach of new investment regulations relating to Statements of Investment Principles (SIPs), warns First Actuarial.

More than 200 clearance applications have been submitted to the Pensions Regulator by organisations worried they will be caught out by anti-avoidance legislation.

The Association of British Insurers is having second thoughts about meeting the challenge laid down by the government to come up with an alternative to the National Pension Saving Scheme, IFAonline has learnt.

THE GOVERNMENT has been forced to scrap plans to simplify pensions disputes after admitting that its red-tape-cutting exercise would place "additional burdens" on pension schemes, reports The Times .

The first payments from the Pension Education Fund (PEF) have been announced by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

THIS MORNING'S papers are discussing the speech by the FSA's head of enforcement, in which she says the watchdog is ready to be harsher with rule-breakers.

Members of Friends Provident defined contribution (DC) pension schemes are to receive a series of leaflets to help them understand the impact of A-Day.

Changes to the borrowing limits on commercial property in self-invested personal pensions (Sipps) and small self-administerd schemes (Ssas) could be acting as an entry barrier for smaller businesses, claims Hornbuckle Mitchell.