Pensions
Future-proofing: How asset managers are meeting the pensions challenge
How asset managers are meeting the pensions challenge
Osborne's pensions revolution: Everything you need to know
All you need to know: Osborne's pensions revolution
The Contrarian Investor: The spectre of pension reforms
The spectre of pension reforms
L&G to close with-profits fund to new business
Legal & General is to close its with-profits fund to new business after interest waned post-RDR.
FCA gives retirees additional protection ahead of pensions freedom
Pension providers must ask clients a set of key questions before they access their pension pot and should also highlight the benefits of regulated advice, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said.
Partnership scraps bond offering despite ‘significant interest'
Partnership Assurance Group, the enhanced annuity specialist, has scrapped plans to issue bonds despite "significant interest" from investors.
Schroders launches flexible pre-retirement fund
Schroders has launched a fund to help defined contribution (DC) members coming up to retirement take advantage of incoming Budget flexibilities.
Advisers back risk-managed funds over annuities for retirement income
Risk-managed funds will overtake annuities to become the preferred retirement income strategy over the next decade, according to an Aegon adviser survey.
Webb's ‘well-meaning' annuity resale plan risks creating disorderly market - Fidelity
Steve Webb's plan to extend pension freedoms to all retirees, creating a market for annuity resales, is well-meaning but unlikely to work in practice, Fidelity retirement director Alan Higham has said.
Webb suggests pensioners could cash in on annuities
Retirees who had already purchased an annuity may be able to benefit from the pension freedoms announced at last year's Budget by selling theirs to the highest bidder.
MPs tell FCA: Act now on retirement ‘second line of defence' or face fresh mis-selling scandal
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) must establish a ‘second line of defence' for retirees ahead of pension freedom or the industry faces another major mis-selling scandal, according to MPs.
Aviva writes to advisers on challenges facing Invesco's Barnett
Aviva has written to advisers outlining its views on the challenges facing Mark Barnett, following a review of how he runs funds previously managed by Neil Woodford.
How a Scottish rate of income tax will work for pensions
The Smith Commission has proposed the Scottish Parliament should get more powers over tax. Jonathan Stapleton discovers what this means for pensions and how schemes and employers can define who is a Scottish taxpayer.
Which financial services groups won our Gold Standard Awards 2014?
The winners of our 12th Gold Standard Awards were celebrated at a special ceremony at the House of Commons last night.
L&G wins £2.5bn bulk annuity deal
Legal & General (L&G) has secured a £2.5bn bulk annuity deal with the TRW pension scheme, taking total annuity transactions to £8.3bn year to date.
Treasury overhauls pension withdrawal rules
The Treasury is to give savers more freedom over how they take a tax-free lump sum from their pension pot.
Investing lessons from the world's largest pension funds
Investing lessons from the world’s largest pension funds
Thoresen to leave ABI for NEST
Association of British Insurers(ABI) director general Otto Thoresen is to step down in 2015 to chair the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST).
M&G sees £1bn net outflow from UK business year to date
M&G reported a net outflow of more than £1bn in the UK during the first nine months of the year, although this was offset by strong sales in Continental Europe, the group said.
Hargreaves study: 200k to cash in pension pot next April
Up to 200,000 people will cash in their pension next year, netting the Treasury an additional £1.6bn in tax, according to research from Hargreaves Lansdown.
Fund managers ‘must answer the big questions' on pension reforms
Fund managers must answer the government's "big questions" on pension reforms, Henderson's head of UK retail Simon Hillenbrand has said.
Pensions freedom: Opportunities come with pitfalls
Pensions freedom: Opportunities come with pitfalls
Govt U-turns on MAS role in guidance guarantee
The retirement guidance guarantee will not be delivered by the Money Advice Service (MAS), the Treasury has said, in a reversal of the government's previous announcement.
Business leaders urge govt to scrap pensions minister post
The Institute of Directors (IoD) has made a plea to the next elected government to not make any more changes to pension legislation or even appoint a pensions minister.
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