Nearly one in four UK adults (23%) say they would never seek financial advice, even if it was free.

Half of workers in the UK (49%) plan to work beyond State Pension age, with the average person now expecting to push back retirement to 72.

Canada Life has launched a CPD training programme in behavioural psychology for Financial Planners.

In the last two years annuity rates have risen by more than half, according to Canada Life, giving a 65-year-old with a £100,000 annuity an extra £2,500 a year.