Key Retirement Solutions

Key Retirement Solutions, the equity release specialist, is to expand its adviser workforce.

Key Retirement Solutions (KRS) has launched a new service for equity release advisers.

HSBC's plans to pilot an equity release service in conjunction with specialist provider In Retirement Services has met with concern on its lack of independent financial advice.

FEARS ARE growing thousands of older homeowners may be mis-sold equity release plans which allow cash to be released from their property, suggests the Times , as figures reveal the equity release market has topped £5bn.

UK consumers do not trust the government over the issue of pension provision, according to new research from Key Retirement Solutions.

The number of outstanding equity release plans has risen to more than 100,000 for the first time with over 101,600 plans at the end of the second quarter of 2005, research from Key Retirement Solutions (KRS) reveals.

Pensioners may have seen their incomes rise by close to a third in the past decade, but council tax has clawed this back and then some, according to figures published by Key Retirement Solutions.

The equity release market has seen record growth yet again in the first quarter of 2005, figures reveal.

The cost of sustaining a living for retired people has increased 45% over the past decade and is nearly double the average pensioners income, research indicates.

Pre-Owned Asset Tax, also referred to as Schedule 15 of the 2004 Finance Act, is unlikely to strike elderly people indiscriminately, says IFA retirement specialist Key Retirement Solutions.