Investment

RETIREMENT

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

In this week's quick-fire Retirement Planner poll we ask: Should SSAS be regulated?

Origen has sold its small self-administered scheme (SSAS) business to pension provider and consultant Barnett Waddingham.

Stephen Robinson, managing director of Bristol-based firm Clarke Robinson & Co, relays the story of a client forced into marriage by his pension providers.

IHT Planning Matters head Peter Legg talks about the current political motivation to clamp down on tax avoidance and what implications it could have for the planning of inheritance tax.

Fiona Murphy goes through the results of this month's Inquiry and investigates how advisers are engaging with auto-enrolment

With restrictions on annual pension contributions being cut from £50,000 to £40,000 and the lifetime limit on savings qualifying for tax reliefs dropping from £1.5m to £1.25m for the 2014-15 tax year, retirement planning for high net worth individuals...

AUTO-ENROLMENT

With pension liberation on the rise, pension experts have called for tougher requirements from regulators. Fiona Murphy asks what they would like to see