With the prospect a rate cut increasing, Japanese consumers tell Michael Fitzpatrick how they have learnt to cope.

Yesterday's annual Scottish Widows Pensions Report made gloomy reading. As I've written before, the combination of inadequate savings, poor investment returns and low annuity rates has resulted in millions ...

Those about to retire have had to choose between rock-bottom annuity rates and complex drawdown plans. Not any more.

Pension savings have hit an 8 year-low as the number of people putting money aside for their retirement has fallen by an “alarming” five per cent in just a year, a new report has found.

Those about to retire have had to choose between rock-bottom annuity rates and complex drawdown plans. Not any more

The cost of household energy has risen seven times faster than household income since 2004, according to a study.

A severe squeeze on pay and record numbers of people working part-time because they could not find full-time jobs is behind a surprise fall in unemployment, according to labour market experts.

More than 6 million people will receive less than the minimum wage in retirement, a survey suggests.

UK unemployment has fallen unexpectedly but economists warn the return to recession will knock business confidence and prompt job cuts in the year ahead.

No pension, no planning, almost no time left and facing decades in retirement scraping money together to make ends meet – that’s the fate awaiting an estimated six-and-a-quarter million Britons over the age of 50.

Use a currency broker, and moving money abroad should be cheap and easy.

Today's children could have a working life of up to sixty years as the state pension age rises to 77 and beyond, new figures have suggested.

If your spouse or partner dies, there is financial support available from the Government.

If your spouse or partner dies, there is financial support available from the Government.

Funding the state pensions of current and future pensioners will cost the equivalent of £146,000 in cumulative tax payments for every household, new official figures have revealed.

The Pensions Policy Institute warns that older workers aren't saving enough to secure a reasonable pension income.

Pay packages for executives in Britain’s biggest companies have escalated out of all proportion to their financial performance or value to society, some of the City’s most powerful investors warn today....

Australia's foreign minister Bob Carr used a visit to London this week to urge William Hague to give British citizens Down Under index-linked pensions.

Report reveals consumers pay twice as much into Isas as they do their pension.

As I've written before, it's difficult to escape the conclusion that many people face a poverty-stricken retirement. Falling annuity rates, longer life-spans, rapidly diminishing final salary schemes, ...

Argentina has ratcheted up pressure on Spain's Repsol YPF by moving to take control of its gas unit, days after seizing its oil assets.

Argentina's deputy economy minister Axel Kicillof raised the stakes in the international row over the country's raid on YPF-Repsol by pledging politicians in Buenos Aires: "We're not going to pay ...

The Bank of England’s money-printing programme has not hit pensioners’ annuity rates, the pensions minister has said.

Pensioners and savers who have been 'penalised' by the Bank of England’s money-printing operation should be compensated by the Government, MPs to announce.

The Government has warned of a crackdown on expats who are illegally fleecing the UK for benefits, as it struggles to lessen the country's debt burden.

The cost of 'management’ of pensions can consume as much as half of your pension.

More must be done to prepare this country as its people grow older.

Britain’s ageing population is threatening a pensions time bomb that could cost as much as £750billion, the International Monetary Fund has warned.

The European Central Bank's €1 trillion (£824bn) lending spree over the winter has stored up a host of fresh problems, leaving parts of the banking system more vulnerable than before as the short-term ...

Britain is at risk of pensions timebomb that could cost the state as much as £750bn, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.

Nobody likes losing money. That's one of the few things that can be safely said about almost every single human being on the planet.Losing money is no fun. All of us avoid it whenever we can, though every ...

Telegraph View: Steve Webb's proposals for pension reform are welcome - but there are several other areas where change is urgently needed.

Workers will be offered a new type of guaranteed pension to replace gold-plated final salary schemes under radical plans being drawn up by ministers.