New figures from the ONS, which point to a slowing of life expectancy increases, are good news for defined benefit pensions schemes, according to AJ Bell.

Mattioli Woods is to cease providing pension transfer advice to individuals with safeguarded benefits and is now undertaking a full review.

The volume of Defined Benefit (DB) pension transfers doubled to £21bn last year, newly-revealed figures have shown.

A Paraplanning boss has detailed how she dealt with a client who faced the “very rare” circumstances of four defined benefit pensions alongside personal pensions and lifetime allowance tax issues.