Retirement

In this video, NEST gets into time travel as it explains auto-enrolment to IFAs.

Life company pension funds from Scottish Equitable and Scottish Life are among those which have consistently failed to beat inflation over the past decade, despite holding £14bn in savings, according to Hargreaves Lansdown research.

The disparity between how much people are saving for retirement and how much they will actually live on is getting wider, says Claire Barker.

The poorest 50% contributed just 6% of the total pension savings made by 50-64-year-olds in the UK between 2006 and 2008, figures show.

Jonathon Howard, head of corporate clients at Courtiers Investment Services, discusses the implications of the recent green paper for State Pension reform.

Consumer demand for pensions has grown by a third since August 2010, research says.

A widowed pensioner in Birmingham is finally pocketing £60,000 in previously unclaimed benefits.

An EU-wide plan to improve the sustainability and equality of pension schemes has been given the green light.

Tony Slocombe, of Heartwood Wealth Management, says pensions alone will not be enough to fund retirement.

Former TSC chairman Lord McFall will direct an independent inquiry into the failings of the current private pension system, as new figures show there has been the equivalent of one piece of fresh pension legislation every week since 1995.