This month's Retirement Planner Inquiry highlights the challenges advisers face when navigating the annuity market.
Labour MP Rachel Reeves has demanded Prime Minister David Cameron "clarify" the government's position on a charge cap for defined contribution (DC) schemes.
Retirees could be given the chance to switch annuity providers during a one year ‘cooling off period' after agreeing a contract, the pensions minister says.
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Labour has vowed to push through a pension charge cap and make using an annuity broker mandatory should it win the next general election.
Pensions minister Steve Webb has confirmed the cap on auto-enrolment (AE) schemes will be delayed until April 2015.
Pensions minster Steve Webb has reiterated his commitment to implementing a cap on pension charges, saying "nothing has changed" as a result of responses to the official consultation.
The planned cap on pension charges for auto-enrolment schemes, due to come in this April, has been shelved for at least 12 months, according to the FT.