- Open new national pension scheme to middle income workers demand MPs Telegraph - 4 hours ago
Restrictions on the workplace pensions scheme must be removed to ensure its success, MPs have warned.
- Tesco Workers Face Pension Cuts Fool.co.uk - Wed, Mar 14, 2012 10:55 GMT
Today, supermarket giant Tesco became the first major British business to announce plans to raise its normal retirement age above 65, currently the state retirement age for male pensioners.Two more yearsOf ...
- Savers 'still at risk of being mis-sold complex products' Telegraph - Tue, Mar 13, 2012 15:18 GMT
The Financial Services Authority has warned that consumers are still at considerable risk of being mis-sold unsuitable and overly complex financial products
- Savers still at risk of being missold complex products Telegraph - Tue, Mar 13, 2012 15:18 GMT
The Financial Services Authority has warned that consumers are still at considerable risk of being mis-sold unsuitable and overly complex financial products
- Child benefit cuts: 351,000 stay-at-home middle class mothers could lose some of their state pension Telegraph - Tue, Mar 13, 2012 15:11 GMT
Hundreds of thousands of middle class mothers face cuts to their state pension as a result of new caps on child benefit, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
- Double your income in retirement Telegraph - Sat, Mar 10, 2012 09:11 GMT
Some policies contain guarantees in the small print that could double your income in retirement.
- Are you sitting on a pension gold mine? Telegraph - Sat, Mar 10, 2012 09:11 GMT
Some policies contain guarantees in the small print that could double your income in retirement.
- Leave our pensions alone, Mr Osborne Telegraph - Fri, Mar 9, 2012 20:14 GMT
With the Budget looming, the Chancellor is planning to target our already battered pensions.
- You’re lucky to have a job - you surely can’t want a pension, too? Telegraph - Fri, Mar 9, 2012 20:12 GMT
George Osborne's plans for higher-rate taxpayers will make him more enemies than friends.
- Markets Can't Rely On QE Forever Fool.co.uk - Fri, Mar 9, 2012 16:25 GMT
Ever since the lows of March 2009, stock markets have been in record-breaking form. The S&P 500 has doubled since those grisly days, the first time it has managed that in a three-year period.The FTSE 100 ...
- Equitable Life moves to remove valuable guarantees from its 400,000 with-profits customers Telegraph - Fri, Mar 9, 2012 07:00 GMT
The beleaguered insurer is "road-testing" a policyholder vote, offering to boost customer policies by 9pc in exchange for giving up a guarantees that their pensions will pay a minimum amount ...
- Debt crisis: as it happened - March 8, 2012 Telegraph - Thu, Mar 8, 2012 07:38 GMT
Debt participation window closes after reaching the minimum level sought by Athens for the deal to go through, moving the country closer to another much-needed bail-out.
- Malaysia's Permodalan Nasional Berhad buys landmark London offices for £500m Telegraph - Thu, Mar 8, 2012 06:00 GMT
A Malaysian state-backed fund has acquired two landmark London offices for around £500m in the latest example of continued overseas interest in the UK capital.
- Don't tax pensions, George Osborne told Telegraph - Wed, Mar 7, 2012 21:11 GMT
More than five million middle-class retired people could be freed from paying income tax on their state pensions, the Treasury’s tax advisers have suggested.
- These EU insurance laws make me want to tear my hair out Telegraph - Wed, Mar 7, 2012 11:51 GMT
The EU lets hairdressers charge women more, so why can't it let insurers base their rates on sex?
- Men face smaller pensions under 'unisex' EU insurance rules Telegraph - Wed, Mar 7, 2012 11:40 GMT
Incomes from private pensions, already at record lows, will fall even further for men when the EU outlaws sex-based annuity rates, experts say.
- Women's car insurance to cost £360 more thanks to new EU ruling Telegraph - Wed, Mar 7, 2012 11:31 GMT
Younger women drivers will see the cost of their car insurance rise by hundreds of pounds when new European rules are introduced at the end of this year.
- Trust in pensions at all-time low Telegraph - Tue, Mar 6, 2012 18:49 GMT
Hidden fees and the Bank of England's programme to print money have pushed public confidence in pensions to an all-time low, the pensions industry has said
- Expat guide to Canada: financial management Telegraph - Tue, Mar 6, 2012 16:04 GMT
In the latest of our country guides, Alison Steed advises on the important steps to take before upping sticks to Canada
- Pensioners' cost of living rises Telegraph - Tue, Mar 6, 2012 14:33 GMT
The cost of living for the UK’s 10.6 million pensioners has risen by a third since 2000 as low interest rates and high inflation have hit retired people in the pockets.
- New Rules To Boost Pension Incomes By 20% Fool.co.uk - Tue, Mar 6, 2012 12:25 GMT
The past few years have brought tough times for pensioners and, in particular, for those retiring since the financial crisis of 2007-09.The rate slumpExactly three years ago, in March 2009, the Bank of ...
- Nationwide takes on insurers with annuity service Telegraph - Mon, Mar 5, 2012 15:05 GMT
Help is at hand for people with small pension pots looking to get more for their money when they retire.
- New rules to help people get bigger pensions Telegraph - Mon, Mar 5, 2012 11:58 GMT
The new rules from the Association of British Insurers are designed to help people shop around for an annuity at retirement.
- A £20bn pension misselling scandal? Telegraph - Sun, Mar 4, 2012 07:00 GMT
The Sunday Telegraph has uncovered evidence that in some cases 55pc of workers who receive financial advice are switching out of final salary schemes.
- EU regulatory reforms to cut retirement income 20pc Telegraph - Sat, Mar 3, 2012 16:51 GMT
European politicians are plotting regulatory reforms that will penalise UK insurance companies and cut retirement incomes by up to 20pc, senior industry sources have warned.
- A £20bn pension mis-selling scandal? Telegraph - Sat, Mar 3, 2012 09:18 GMT
The Telegraph has uncovered evidence that in some cases 55pc of workers who receive financial advice are switching out of final salary schemes.
- Currency exchange: the new price of a life in the sun Telegraph - Fri, Mar 2, 2012 09:24 GMT
Expats, holiday homeowners and pensioners are selling up and coming home in droves or at least sending foreign money back to the UK
- Printing more money will leave pensioenrs worse off, admits Bank Telegraph - Thu, Mar 1, 2012 22:00 GMT
The Bank of England’s decision to effectively print more money has left some pensioners “worse off” but without this policy “many more people would be much worse off”, a senior Bank figure has admitted....
- Printing more money will leave pensioners worse off, admits Bank Telegraph - Thu, Mar 1, 2012 17:31 GMT
The Bank of England’s decision to effectively print more money has left some pensioners “worse off” but without this policy “many more people would be much worse off”, a senior Bank figure has admitted....
- The Stark Statistic That Will Rule Your Retirement Fool.co.uk - Wed, Feb 29, 2012 15:20 GMT
Here at The Motley Fool, we cover retirement-related issues quite often.And there's a reason for that: as investors, retirement is one of the prime considerations that we all have in mind when we invest.Not ...
- Half of Britons consider 'Marigold Hotel' retirement overseas Telegraph - Tue, Feb 28, 2012 06:00 GMT
Almost half of Britons are considering retiring to a cheaper country in order to have a better standard of living when they stop working, according to new figures from the pensions industry.
- Embrace the brave new world of retirement Telegraph - Sat, Feb 25, 2012 07:15 GMT
We are living longer, but are not always fit enough to work in old age, meanwhile, pensions are paying less every year.
- The Retirement Option You're Being Denied Fool.co.uk - Fri, Feb 24, 2012 16:35 GMT
Starting from April last year, a rule change meant that pension savers could take unlimited income from their pension, provided that they had a guaranteed lifetime income in place of at least £20,000 -- ...
- With profits: bin it or hold on? Telegraph - Fri, Feb 24, 2012 14:27 GMT
Another round of poor bonus rates could prompt millions to cash in their traditional with-profits investments.
- Pensioners missing out on £2.8 billion of Credits, Government says Telegraph - Thu, Feb 23, 2012 16:17 GMT
Up to 1.6 million of the UK’s poorest pensioners are missing out on unclaimed Pension Credit worth an average of £33 a week, new figures show.

