Scottish Widows’ corporate savings platform will launch in Q2 this year, pioneering a way for high earners to avoid tax on their retirement pots.

Regulatory pressures are forcing more independent financial advisers (IFAs) to abandon investment advice in favour of engaging a discretionary fund manager (DFM), according to a major report by highnetworth-online.com.

The current cost of asset management is unsustainable, according to panelists at PM’s first Retirement Summit.

Pensions Management has discovered that the Freedom Sipp faces imminent deregistration and windup.

Structured products are proving extremely popular in the current recessionary market, according to Newcastle Intermediary Services (NIS).

Dunstan Thomas, an administration and software provider, has launched a new FSA-compliant system to help financial advisers fully migrate legacy assets.

Investors affected by the drop in value in Standard Life’s sterling fund have voiced concerns about its long-term stability.

MetLife Europe has declared 2009 as the “year of the guarantee” while announcing the launch of its Guaranteed Investment Bond.

Scottish Life has revamped its defined contribution (DC) offering, which it believes is better suited to unstable economic conditions and treating customer fairly compliance.

Standard Life is to remediate certain customers of its Sterling Pension Fund following its announcement that the value of the fund had dropped by 5%.