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If you are quiet you will hear the whoosh of kites being flown! It is that time of the year – with the Autumn Statement on the horizon, everyone wants their ideas to be considered. Some of those kites are a new age-related bonus system, a call for a ‘pensions bonfire’ (to get rid of complexity), and various suggestions of periods of no change and independent pension commissions.

Six more providers have signed up for the Pensions Dashboard initiative which will aim to give consumers a central point to monitor all their pension arrangements.

Mortgage market rules should be used as a blueprint for banning pensions cold-calling, a pensions firm has proposed.

The State Pension is not fit for purpose and should be replaced with a Workplace ISA and a new residency-based Senior Citizens’ Pension, a think tank says.

Nearly half of savers living in the north region are using cash ISAs to build a retirement fund, according to a new report.

The ruling about cab company Uber and employment rights will have important consequences for tax and pensions, professionals say.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme has revealed a list of another 25 failed finance firms this morning - including a number of pension businesses.

Sipp property investors are being penalised by a rule change made by the the Scottish Government, a Sipps firm says.

The post-freedoms pension fraud spike was “worse than previously feared”, new analysis indicates.

The average withdrawal per person from pensions since the freedoms were launched has fallen to under £10,000.