Pensions

Sam Dunn: Ladies and gents, take your seats for the 2006 PBR

Published: 03 December 2006

'The pre-Budget report has a history of surprises'

L&G surprised as 80 per cent ignore its pensions advice

Published: 02 December 2006

More than four in five pension savers with insurer Legal & General have opted to remain contracted out of the State Second Pension (S2P), despite being told that they are likely to be better off if they contract back into the scheme.

Money News: Banks told to show spirit of Christmas to Farepak savers or risk playing Scrooge

Published: 26 November 2006

UK banks and financial services firms that fail to contribute to the compensation fund of the collapsed Christmas savings club Farepak risk "serious damage to the reputation of the whole finance and retail industry".

Sam Dunn: We want an apology. We get an internal audit

Published: 29 October 2006

When any boyhood prank used to go wrong, I would swiftly put into practice a lesson learned early in life from my parents: saying sorry doesn't cost much.

Ask Sindie: Pushing 66, and still paying for a pension

Published: 29 October 2006

An older worker is unsure how best to plan for retirement

The giddy ride to the promised land of pensions

Published: 22 October 2006

As the industry changes, savers should have more confidence in switching their funds

They've paid in for years. Now who will pay their pensions?

Published: 15 October 2006

Thousands wait for compensation over failed company funds

A heaven-sent chance to pass on a pension?

Published: 24 September 2006

There's a new, flexible retirement scheme, but you may need to be in the 'brethren' to join

Money News: Golden years are over as retirement savings are slashed by 50%

Published: 24 September 2006

Payouts from personal pensions have plummeted by more than half over the past 10 years, due to the poor performance of the stock market in that period.

Pension funds cut in half in just 10 years

Published: 23 September 2006

Personal pensions have more than halved in value over the past 10 years, new research shows. Moneyfacts, the personal finance data analyst, said a man retiring at age 65 in July 1996, having paid £500 a year into a personal pension for 15 years, would have had an average of £25,840 to spend on a retirement income. The same policy maturing this year would have produced just £11,986.

Why top-ups could leave you down

Published: 16 September 2006

New rules for pensions could leave many savers out of pocket, says Toby Walne

Finance, flights and food too: forget the express checkout

Published: 03 September 2006

Selling everything bar pensions, supermarkets are going deep into financial services, but do their deals make a difference?

Sam Dunn: Ministers must stand up to the pension bullies

Published: 03 September 2006

The minimum wage has been won. Now for compulsory savings

Money News: Two million-strong Saga joins company pensions campaign

Published: 20 August 2006

The campaign to compensate up to 125,000 workers who lost final salary pensions when their employers went bust has been bolstered with political support from Saga, the over-50s financial services provider.

There's no stopping the growth of Sipps

Published: 13 August 2006

Sales of pensions that let people plan their own investment strategy are booming. So should we all be buying one?

James Daley: Hutton can't win this pensions battle

Published: 22 July 2006

The Government is teed up to get yet another deserved kick in the teeth next week, over its treatment of the 125,000 people who lost their pensions when their employers went bust.

So you think £100,000 is a lot of cash...

Published: 09 July 2006

A new scheme to encourage Britons to save more towards their pensions comes not a moment too soon

Sam Dunn: Pensioners kicked when they're lying down

Published: 09 July 2006

Most bullies pick on easy targets, and I can't think of an easier one than a group of pensioners desperate to win redress for retirement income that was wiped out through no fault of their own.

Money News: Pensions compensation battle to be fought out in the High Court

Published: 18 June 2006

Tens of thousands of victims of failed company pension schemes have lodged a request in the High Court for a judicial review of the Government's refusal to compensate them.

'Drowning in changes': Blair launches another pensions lifeboat

Published: 28 May 2006

At the heart of the Government's White Paper on pensions, unveiled on Thursday, was simplicity.

Sam Dunn: Working for longer will be fairer in the end

Published: 28 May 2006

Critics of the reforms ignore the cost of our increased life expectancy

David Prosser: Pensions crisis - it isn't all bad news

Published: 27 May 2006

In all of the arguments about the merits and failings of the White Paper on pensions reform, one truth should not be overlooked. That we even have a White Paper represents huge progress on a year ago - for that alone, Lord Turner of Ecchinswell deserves huge credit.