Standard Life

Financial advice has a direct impact on the level of savings people make, and could be the key to solving the savings crisis claims new research from Standard Life.

FIGURES OUT next month are expected to show more British businesses than ever before are cutting dividends because they need cash to cover black holes in their pension funds, according to the Times .

The government's u-turn on sipps will not affect Standard Life's flotation next year "one iota" according to John Lawson, but he warns it could break smaller companies if legal action is taken by disgruntled clients.

STANDARD LIFE has wasted up to £3.5m gearing up for aspects of new pensions legislation scrapped just four months before they were set to come into force, according to the Scotsman .

LORD TURNER is conducting a last-minute charm offensive on employers and insurers, just a week before his Pensions Commission releases its report on the solution to Britain's pensions crisis, according to the Times.

STANDARD LIFE yesterday shrugged off a near 50% decline in sales of individual pensions in the first nine months of the year as it continued to push its higher-margin products - a key part of its plans to float on the stock market in 2006, according to...

JUDGES ARE considering unprecedented legal action against the government in a row over changes to their pension rights, reports The Times .

BCCI LIQUIDATORS' £850m lawsuit against the Bank of England dramatically collapsed yesterday at the High Court in London bringing a 12-year legal battle to an end, according to this morning's papers.

FEARS ARE growing thousands of older homeowners may be mis-sold equity release plans which allow cash to be released from their property, suggests the Times , as figures reveal the equity release market has topped £5bn.

Which? has criticised the abolition of RU64 as a "huge mistake" despite widespread industry support for the move.