Investment

The cost of registering a lasting power of attorney (LPA) has been reduced from £130 to £110, the government has announced.

NEST Corporation, the trustee body that runs auto-enrolment pension scheme NEST, has been defrauded out of more than £1.4m, it has revealed.

Membership of private pensions has hit a new low, according to the Office for National Statistics.

The current pension tax relief set-up offers significant advantages over ISAs but is poorly understood by savers and ‘radical alternatives' should be explored, a report has concluded.

The number of people saving into an occupational scheme has fallen by about 500,000 since 2010, according to figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

Advisers should finalise and promote their auto-enrolment proposition now or they risk missing a "great opportunity", according to NEST.

Government policies aimed at reducing the liability of the state for supporting people in retirement could fail due to being managed across different departments, auditors suggest.

Standard Life has seen a 12% opt-out rate across its auto-enrolment (AE) schemes to date.

People born after the mid-1980s will suffer the most from proposed changes to the state pension, a think tank has said.

In this week's quick fire poll we ask: Is the removal of NEST restrictions a good thing?