December was the fourth month in a row where pension transfer values monitored by XPS fell, although the number of people making a transfer rose.  

Soaring SIPP claims have forced the Financial Services Compensation Scheme to increase its levy for 2020/21 by £87m to £635m. 

Former Pensions Minister Sir Steve Webb is to become a partner at growing pensions and investment consultancy Lane Clark & Peacock LLP.

It is quite hard to believe that we have just welcomed in the start of a new decade as 2020 begins.

SIPP and platform provider AJ Bell has launched its Retirement Investment Account (RIA) today - a new low-cost pension with a ‘streamlined’ investment proposition.