Pensions

Retirees on benefits who sell their annuity need to fully understand the DWP will treat them as if they continue to receive the income from it warns former pensions minister Steve Webb....

The government has warned small and micro employers that employees not paying tax will see more deducted from their pay packet if they use a net pay scheme for auto-enrolment. Publishing its...

Providers will be able to buy back annuities from five million Britons holding the products under proposals published by the Treasury today, but they could lose 20 per cent of their value...

MPs have launched a probe into the implementation of auto-enrolment that will look at the policy’s interaction with state pension reform, contribution thresholds and its impact on smaller employers. The DWP Select...

Up to 1,000 defined benefit schemes are at serious risk of falling into the Pension Protection Fund, most of which will leave members receiving only PPF compensation says the Pensions Institute. A...

Andy Agathangelou Daniel Godfrey, the former chief executive of the Investment Association who is widely seen as having pushed a reform agenda against a broadly resistant asset management community, will be the...

MPs should ask the Department for Work and Pensions for a secret document that spells out the extent to which the contracted-out win through the single-tier pension reforms and the contracted-in lose,...

A row is erupting over the level at which mandatory advice should be required for the resale of annuities, after the Treasury tabled an amendment on the issue today. The government has...

Pension freedoms and changes to pension taxation are creating increased demand for financial advice from members of workplace schemes. Smarter Business asks Standard Life’s Alan Ritchie what providers can do to help...

Joel Adams sees the corporate pension not as an end in itself but as the beginning of a conversation with pretty much anyone in the workforce that could lead to an advice...