Investment

Retirement Planner's round-up of the top pension stories this week.

The financial future of thousands of former miners was thrown into doubt last night after Britain's last coal company collapsed into administration.

The government's defined ambition (DA) project faces "formidable obstacles", according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI).

Providers - and adviser Almary Green - have given their verdicts on news today that the government plans to lift NEST's contribution cap and transfer restrictions in 2017.

The government needs to stop making changes to the pension regime according to Almary Green.

Jargon Free Benefits founder Steve Bee has welcomed news that the government plans to legislate for the lifting of NEST's contribution cap and transfer restrictions in 2017, calling the limits "crazy" - and saying they should be removed today.

The government plans to legislate for the lifting of NEST's contribution cap and transfer restrictions in 2017.

The National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) has picked Legal & General Investment Management to run two real estate mandates.

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