Financial Planning-based adviser and pension benefits company LEBC has unveiled what it calls a ‘Bionic Advice’ service designed to make financial advice more widely available and more affordable.

Young women are risking their retirement ‘security’ by opting out of their workplace pensions in higher numbers than men, according to a new study.

Former Pensions Minister Baroness Ros Altmann has warned that the planned Pensions Dashboard will fail unless the government also introduces simple, standardised pension statements for all pension savers.

Nick Cann CFP, the former chief executive of the Institute of Financial Planning, has been honoured with a British Empire Medal (BEM) in the New Year Honours’ List.

The Chartered Insurance Institute has appointed Jennette Newman as chair of its Professional Standards Committee.

HSBC Master Trust has become the first new master trust to be authorised by The Pensions Regulator which has so far focused on authorising existing schemes.

A Japanese fund - Legg Mason Japan Equity - has topped the best performing funds over the past decade but the best performers were a mixed bag with no single sector dominating.

The Office for National Statistics says its research has found that men and women both report enjoying the happiest times of their lives between ages 65 and 74.

Curtis Banks, the SIPP and SSAS provider, has predicted that growth in the retirement advice sector in 2020 will come mainly from pension savers and advisers changing or switching existing drawdown plans. 

The lack of Professional Indemnity insurance availability for IFA firms is ‘the biggest threat to adviser businesses’ in 2020, the chairman of Beaufort Group Simon Goldthorpe has warned.