Pensions

Royal London to start retirement conversations earlier

Royal London has launched new ‘wake up’ packs. Under current rules providers only need to...

A new high for retirement income

Latest research by Prudential has found that people planning to retire this year are...

Mind the Gap

‘Mind the Gap’ is a phrase that is often seen and heard on the...

iPipeline reveals TCP LifeSystems acquisition

iPipeline has announced the acquisition of TCP LifeSystems, a software solutions provider to life...

Retire with an extra £10k p.a. by cutting back

Many people could have as much as £9,853 in additional annual income in retirement...

Mid-life savings crisis for UK workers

18% of UK workers in their fifties and sixties are unable to save anything...

Over-50s renters face £43bn retirement shortfall

Scottish Widows has wanted that over-50s renters are not saving anywhere near enough to...

Majority of workers ‘saving in the dark’

32% of workers in the UK say they have no idea what they have...

Advisers want lifetime allowance scrapping in Budget

Momentum Pensions has claimed that scrapping the lifetime allowance tops advisers' wish lists in...

Workers jealous of retirees’ pensions and lifestyles

Prudential has warned that pension savers in their final years of work are worried...

LLA calls for Pensions Wise guidance to be extended

The Later Life Academy (LLA) has provided a written response to the Work & Pensions...

Millennials not ignoring pension planning

Millennials are putting pension saving high up their list of workplace priorities, according to...

LBG acquires Zurich pension and savings business

Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) is to acquire Zurich’s UK workplace pensions and savings business...

Royal London backs national retirement income target

The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has proposed a national retirement income target...
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Cover

The money sitting in your back pocket that you keep forgetting to pick up

Let me give you a number. Almost half of UK mortgage holders would struggle to meet their payments within six months of losing their...

Smart Data can solve the UK’s homebuying bottleneck

For many of us, buying a home remains one of the most stressful and frustrating experiences we will ever undertake. Despite advances in digital banking,...

The 1.8 million problem nobody’s talking about

There's a number that should be keeping every mortgage firm owner awake right now. 1.8 million. That's how many fixed rate mortgages are expiring...

Lenders urged to do more as purchase market slows

High street lenders - including TSB, Lloyds, Santander, and NatWest - have all been reducing rates and making changes to their product ranges over...

The cost of knowing less

There is a particular kind of risk in financial services that rarely announces itself with drama. It does not arrive as a crisis event,...

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Building Societies

The Cambridge relaunches interest-only fixed rate mortgages

The Cambridge has relaunched a selection of fixed rate mortgage products, including interest-only options...
Building Societies

Vernon BS adds free legals to selected remortgage deals

Vernon Building Society has partnered with Optimus to introduce a free legals service on...
Buy-to-let

Paragon launches tailored buy-to-let service for complex cases

Paragon Bank has launched a Tailored service to support buy-to-let mortgage applications that fall...
valuations

Castle Trust Bank adds AVMs to buy-to-let applications

Castle Trust Bank has introduced automated valuation models on eligible buy-to-let cases as part...

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