Expanding Sipp provider Curtis Bank has acquired rival Pointon York's Sipp business for an undisclosed sum.

The government will be sending personal tax summaries to 24m taxpayers annually from today.

I have to say I like a good jigsaw puzzle but there is nothing more frustrating when pieces are missing. George Osborne's announcement on the 29 September on changes to defined contributions death benefits turned out to be just like that.

The Financial Conduct Authority has issued a warning about individuals being encouraged to transfer assets from their work pension schemes into Sipps as part of a deal to buy one company's shares.

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.

Most Britons have little or no grasp of the raft of pension changes announced this year, according to a survey by chartered accounts HW Fisher & Company.