Catch up: Five retirement stories you might have missed

Catch up: Five retirement stories you might have missed

Jenna Towler
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Here's a round-up of five key retirement and advice stories from the past week...

  Would the annuity resale market be 'disorderly'? Steve Webb's plan to extend pension freedoms to all retirees, creating a market for annuity re-sales, is well-meaning but unlikely to work in practice, Fidelity retirement director Alan Higham has said. He said while Webb's plans were "undoubtedly noble" it would be hard to create an orderly market to facilitate the sale of annuity contracts.   ‘Some pensions knowledge helpful' The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) and Citizens Advice have released job specs for people looking to provide pensions 'guidance' - with each organi...

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