Aegon

The success of freedom and choice will largely depend on the quality of advice and the number of people who receive it according to the industry.

The Treasury is seeking views on whether to allow defined contribution (DC) members to access their pensions before retirement to pay for financial advice.

Advisers and providers alike have attacked Bank of England chief economist Andy Haldane's suggestion that property is a better retirement investment than pensions.

Workplace pensions, childcare and cycle to work schemes have been left out of plans to reform salary sacrifice, according to a recently published HMRC consultation.

The Insolvency Service has revealed it closed down five pension liberation firms in its last financial year from April 2015 to March 2016.

The Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) has launched an inquiry into the regulation of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes.

The government should drop the 'triple lock' for state pensions as it will become unaffordable, former pensions minister Baroness Ros Altmann has said.

Aegon has agreed an annuity referral partnership with Legal & General (L&G) as part of the insurer's plans to stop writing all new annuities in the fourth quarter.

Lack of consistency across defined contribution (DC) default funds may result in larger numbers of members opting out, Punter Southall Aspire has warned.

The "superficial attractions" of the lifetime ISA (LISA) will "destroy pensions", former pensions minister Baroness Ros Altmann has warned.