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The Financial Conduct Authority has announced new rules and plans to help make pension choices clearer for over-50s, which it says will help up to 100,000 every year.
29 January 2019
Annuity providers will have to tell savers if they can get a better deal from another provider and how to get it, under proposed new rules outlined by the financial regulator.
25 November 2016
Plans to allow retired savers to sell their retirement annuities have been shelved by the Government.
18 October 2016
Standard annuity rates have collapsed to all-time lows just weeks after new pension freedoms came into force, according to a financial website.
23 April 2015
New rules to protect savers, which include increasing the amount you can reclaim when a bank fails from £85,000 to £1million in certain circumstances, have been confirmed by the Bank of England today.
1 April 2015
Pension providers will have to give more support to savers accessing their pension pots in future, under plans confirmed by the regulator today.
26 March 2015
In tomorrow's Budget, the Chancellor will likely be lauding the most radical changes to private pensions for a generation.
17 March 2015
Five million people who've already bought and locked into an annuity will be given the same pension freedoms as people nearing retirement, the Government has announced.
16 March 2015
Everyone aged 55 and over will now be entitled to a free state pension statement the Government has announced today, but it's not automatic so you'll need to request a copy.
7 February 2015
The impartial guidance that will be offered alongside the pension changes coming into force in April will go under the name Pension Wise, the Government has announced.
12 January 2015
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