Retirement specialist PensionBee has extended its long-standing sponsorship with Premier League football club Brentford for another year.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme, the industry consumer safety net, has so far received 644 claims against failed SIPP provider Forthplus Pensions Limited, it reported today.

White label platform Seccl, owned by Octopus, is to handle the 300,000 investment and pension customers of digital bank Monzo.

Investment platform Transact saw funds under direction (FUD) rise by 11% to £69.5bn in the three months to the end of June.

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More than nine out of 10, 93%, of women who are currently or have previously been in a Financial Planning role would recommend it to other women, according to the Women in Personal Finance survey.

The Society of Pension Professionals said the revival of the government’s landmark Pension Commission is good news as it will consider a wide range of potential solutions rather than focusing solely on automatic enrolment.

Inheritance tax receipts for April to June were £2.2bn, over £100m higher than the same period last year, according to new HMRC figures published today.

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has confirmed that the third statutory Government review into when and how to raise the State Pension age will begin straightaway.

The restricted remit of the new Pensions Commission will limit its ability to deal with the scale of the problem, according to LCP partner and former Pensions Minister Steve Webb.