Over many years the big insurance and investment companies have been portraying retirement as one big vacation where sensible savers can play golf or lounge about on sandy beaches, living their retirement dreams.

Financial Planners have reacted with relief that pensions were largely left untouched by the Chancellor in today’s Budget and were broadly positive on some of the moves to help first time buyers.

The latest digital edition of Financial Planning Today, our 40-page magazine for Financial Planners and Paraplanners, has now been published and is available online.  

A young Financial Planning trainee has said he is thrilled to have won a £2,000 prize to fund a trip to the annual conference of South Africa's Financial Planning Institute in Cape Town.