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Retirement planning rises as a client priority
Planning for retirement has grown in importance since a year ago, a survey has found.
Retirees 'at risk' when reforms come, warns pensions boss
Pensioners who are unable to get regulated financial advice are "at risk" when the Budget reforms take effect next year, a pensions firm boss has said.
4m fewer in private pensions than late sixties says ONS
A new pension report from the Office for National Statistics says that people are living longer but many are not saving for retirement or not saving enough.
HMRC hits back over 45% tax claims
The taxman has rubbished a report stating that many retirees will be "clobbered" with a 45% tax next April.
Over 60% of Sipp complaints to ombudsman upheld
More than six out of ten complaints about Sipps to the Financial Ombudsman Service have been upheld since 2013.
'Britain sleepwalking towards impoverished retirement'
Britain is "sleepwalking towards an impoverished retirement" due to a major shortfall in retirement savings, a firm behind a year long study has warned.
Citizens Advice Bureau lands retirement guidance service job
The Citizens Advice Bureau has replaced the Money Advice Service as one of the two partners to deliver the pensions guidance guarantee.
'Next April could herald PPI style scandal for pensions'
The pension reforms risk creating another PPI-style scandal, a financial services firm's founder says.
Risk for retirees' future posed by returning children
The increasing number of adult children living with their mum and dad could be sapping their parents' savings and affecting their plans for retirement, a think tank has warned.
'New retirement body needed to secure long term future for pensions'
An independent retirement savings commission should be created to put the long term interests of savers at the heart of pensions policy, according to The National Association of Pension Funds.