George Osborne pulled a rabbit out of the Budget hat last month with a number of surprise pension announcements. Hannah Uttley discusses these and other major benefit announcements.
Most people think savers will find it difficult to resist the urge to spend money earmarked for living costs in retirement when they are allowed to take pension pots as cash, research finds.
Pension liberation fraudsters are targeting savers following the overhaul of defined contribution (DC) announced in this year's Budget, JLT executive Margaret Snowdon says.
Naomi Rainey talks to Margaret Snowdon about industry plans to tackle liberation fraud
Seven out of ten pension industry members back extending defined contribution (DC) flexibilities to defined benefit (DB) members, according to an Aon Hewitt survey.
Many trust-based DC pension schemes already offer more than the ‘guidance guarantee' to their members and are worried about being forced to ‘dumb down' standards, according to the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF).
Steve Webb would be "nervous" about providers playing a part in the Chancellor's guidance at retirement pledge.
The government has extended the length of time savers who have recently taken their tax-free lump sum have to decide how to use the rest of their pension pot.
The insurance industry is capable of cost effectively delivering the Chancellor's ‘retirement advice for all' pledge, but passing the "impartially test" would be challenging, Otto Thoresen has told MPs.
Just Retirement has completed a £36.5m medically underwritten buy-in with a shipping firm and says it is on target to write £80m of bulk annuity business in the year to June.