More must be done to lift perceptions of the Financial Planning and advice profession, the PFS says, after a former Pensions Minister said the Government doesn’t understand what advisers do.

The former Pensions Minister has suggested the Government doesn’t understand what Financial Planners do and claimed they lack a strong body to represent them.

The highly popular pensioner bonds should be brought back - but made available to people of all ages – to give a much needed boost to savings, the ex-Pensions Minister says.

There is an argument for raising state pension age faster, a leading pensions expert says, as former Pensions Minister Ros Altmann called for the triple lock to be scrapped.