Tom McPhail

Another year and yet another guide on how to encourage retirees to shop around before buying an annuity.

People with several small occupational pensions should be able to group them together for trivial commutation, says Hargreaves Lansdown head of pensions research Tom McPhail.

The Pension Income Choice Association (PICA) has appointed Fidelity UK managing director Gary Shaughnessy to its management board.

The Pensions Regulator's (TPR) new guidance for members shopping around for retirement products is ‘still not enough', according to Tom McPhail, head of pensions research at Hargreaves Lansdown.

The state pension could be lifted to a £140 per week payment with no means testing, according to new proposals.

Private sector pensions cost the taxpayer more than public sector pensions in 2007/08, Richard Murphy, founder of Tax Research LLP says.

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Savers are facing a rare conundrum about whether to lock into a lifetime annuity amid unprecedented economic uncertainty, Hargreaves Lansdown says.

With the government's review of workplace pension reform, including auto-enrolment and NEST, due to report back within weeks, speculation is rife on what shape the Coalition's solution to the UK's retirement savings gap will take.

Nervous advisers are recommending clients stick with their existing pension arrangements, even where there is good reason to transfer, because of the FSA's "heavy-handed" crackdown on pension switching.