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Extending working lives and promoting private pensions are essential in making pension systems sustainable and adequate according to the OECD.

Cash incentives should be offered under "no circumstances" in enhanced transfer value (ETV) exercises, an industry code of conduct warns.

Retirement Planner's round up of the latest pension stories.

Just Retirement has urged property-owning pensioners to check their eligibility for state benefits as many are missing out on hundreds of pounds a year in extra income.

Chris Pond, chair of the standards board at the Equity Release Council says it is essential for the revamped trade body to build consumer confidence through its wider remit.

The abolition of protected rights from pension saving will make setting up flexible drawdown easier and quicker for advisers, providers have said.

The British Medical Association (BMA) has voted in favour of industrial action in protest against reforms to the NHS pension scheme.

In this week's quick fire poll we ask: Does SHIP's rebrand into the Equity Release Council fill you with greater confidence in equity release?

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

Prudential's Colin Simmons has said advisers should not rule out recommending income drawdown to clients despite the GAD rate's historic low.