Retirement

Mark Fawcett, chief investment officer at the National Employment Savings Trusts (NEST), explains how the vehicle's board set up its recommended annuity provider panel.

This week's Retirement Planner quick-fire poll asks: Are your clients willing to work longer so they can adequately fund their retirement?

Workers who delay boosting their pension pot until the last ten years of work could be risking their retirement as more than 25% of the over-55s are out of jobs due to illness or redundancy, according to Aviva.

A fifth of workers are failing to save anything for retirement, a survey of more than 5,000 people suggests.

Philip Brown, head of retirement products at Partnership, is to join LV=.

Long term care (LTC) insurance products will remain niche in spite of a growing need unless people are forced to buy them, the OECD said.

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.