Pensions

BUDGET 2016: Lifetime ISAs introduced

The government is introducing a new Lifetime ISA for people under the age of...

Steve Webb sounds Help to Save warning

A former pensions minister has has warned that the government’s ‘help to save’ scheme...

Pension providers welcome FAMR report

There has been a largely positive response to today's publication of the Financial Advice Market...

Call for introduction of Help to Buy pensions

NFU Mutual has said that people struggling to get on the property ladder could...

Warning sounded over pension withdrawal for property investment

Portal Financial has revealed a significant increase in enquiries from people looking to access their...

“Inspiring and alarming” retirement study revealed

Expectations of retirement are changing, with 62% of today’s retirees feeling retirement is better...

FS review ‘should aid the most vulnerable’

LV= is urging the government to focus particularly on helping the most vulnerable people access advice...

Biggest personal finance mistakes revealed

Research from specialist insurer Partnership has looked into the largest financial mistakes people make. The top five...

4% year-on-year rise in expected annual retirement income

People looking to retire in the coming 12 months expect to receive an annual...

A generation unprepared for pension freedom

Many people near retirement age still do not understand their options or how to...

One in ten hope for an inheritance to fund retirement

Nearly five million people are relying on an inheritance pay-out to fund their retirement,...

Almost half worried about lack of pension savings

49% of people surveyed are concerned that they will not have enough pension savings to be...

LLA responds to FAMR and financial guidance consultation

The Later Life Academy (LLA), the commercial and training organisation for later life advisers,...

Property before pensions for one in three

31% of over-55s say they would prefer to use property wealth to fund retirement...
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“It’s Christmas time, there’s no need not to check your supplier list…”

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FS25/6 and the execution-only irony brokers can’t ignore

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Less Autumn Budget and more Autumn Bodgit

After months of fevered speculation before the Budget residential property transactions juddered to a halt. I always suspected that as ‘confidence arrives on foot and...

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