Aegon

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.

The volume of bulk annuity deals written in the first half of 2016 was 40% smaller compared to the previous year, according to Aon Hewitt.

Stephen Crosbie has been promoted to protection director at Aegon UK.

The secondary annuities market will only work if the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) puts in place adequate protections to prevent consumers being ripped off.