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The majority of people approaching retirement want to get their ‘guaranteed guidance' from financial advisers or established consumer organisations not pension providers, research shows.

In this week's quick fire poll we ask: Is £17,500 a year enough for a 'comfortable' retirement?

The financial services regulator has apologised to an adviser who claims an employee swore at him during a telephone conversation.

A fraudster who reaped £1.6m in VAT from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) by pretending to be a number of dead Hollywood film producers, has been jailed for more than three years.

IFAs are not at all confident in small and medium enterprises' (SMEs) ability to meet their auto-enrolment obligations, as just one in 100 advisers think businesses are well prepared for the move to work place pensions, according to a survey.

In this week's Retirement Planner news round-up we highlight five key stories you might have missed over the past seven days.

Wonga is to pay more than £2.6m to around 45,000 customers for "unfair and misleading" debt collection practices following an investigation by the regulator.

Schroders is among a group of investors to have acquired a $32m (£18.8m) stake in online wealth manager Nutmeg.

A hike in the base rate of as little as 0.25% would have a much greater impact on the disposable incomes of highly indebted consumers, potentially threatening the UK's recovery, Neil Woodford has said.

A New York court has fined a former UK-based Credit Suisse trader for his role in artificially inflating bond prices.