Pensions
Alliance Trust Savings extends summer offers
The market leading summer offers recently announced by Alliance Trust Savings have been extended due to popular demand, giving investors more time to take advantage of the summer offers on the Alliance Trust Savings Select SIPP and Investment Dealing Account.
Alliance Trust predict surge in flexible drawdown
Alliance Trust Savings, one of the country's leading SIPP providers has predicted a surge in advised flexible drawdown business as a result of the 2011 Finance Bill gaining Royal Assent.
Retirement income worries and lump sum regrets for pensioners
More than two in five pensioners (43 per cent) say they are living a ‘cautious' retirement as they worry about having sufficient long-term income to get by, according to new research from Prudential.
Don't let care home fees erode a lifetime's wealth
Many of us plan for inheritance tax to stop chunks of our estate going to the tax man instead of our children. But there’s a much greater threat to your lifetime’s wealth that few people think to prepare for.
AXA Wealth Family Suntrust offers flexible drawdown
AXA Wealth is introducing a flexible drawdown option for eligible members of its family SIPP; the AXA Wealth Family Suntrust (‘FST').
Aviva introduces Fixed Term Retirement Plan
Aviva is launching its new Fixed Term Retirement Plan, a retirement income plan that doesn't lock customers in for life.
Retired Brits are £6,200 a year short of a comfortable retirement
UK pensioners are living on an average of £6,200 a year less than the £22,000 they say they need to live comfortably, with two in five (38 per cent) finding living on their retirement income harder than they originally expected.
Young people realistic about need to save for retirement
While young people are realistic about the need to save for retirement, they are likely to need incentives to make it a priority, a new survey from Fidelity International suggests.
Prudential guarantees to shake-up UK life and pensions market
Prudential UK has launched a major assault on the UK's bond and pensions market with the launch of a range of new guarantees across the PruFund Growth and PruFund Cautious funds.
UK pension savers set to gift £795 million to the taxman
Higher rate tax payers in their employer's occupational pension schemes could be missing out on as much as £795 million this year by failing to top up pension funds with additional tax relief added, according to research from unbiased.co.uk.
Win tickets to London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Scottish Widows, the Official Pensions and Investment Provider of the London 2012 Games, has announced a new competition to become part of the historic event.
Pensioners blowing cash on holidays, cars and DIY
Almost eight in 10 (79 per cent) UK pensioners with private or company schemes are taking tax-free lump-sums out of their pension funds, averaging £21,500 at the point of retirement, according to new research from Prudential.
Inflation proof your retirement income warns Standard Life
Standard Life is warning anyone thinking about retirement to consider the effects of inflation eroding their income.
LV= announces new partnership with Barclays Stockbrokers
Retirement specialist LV= has announced that it has formed a new partnership with Barclays Stockbrokers, the UK's largest execution-only stockbroker.
UK remains under-prepared for retirement
The seventh annual Scottish Widows UK Pensions Report 2011 reveals widespread and ingrained inertia across the country with nearly half (49 percent) of those people who could and should be saving preparing inadequately for retirement.