United Kingdom

Retirement | 6 Sep 16

Hargreaves Lansdown will not offer a service for investors to sell their annuities when the UK government scheme launches next year, citing too many risks for investors.

Retirement | 5 Sep 16

With no date set for new UK chancellor Philip Hammond’s autumn statement, and no hints as to what it will contain, the financial services industry will continue treading water, said Jon Gwinnett, pensions technical manager at Nucleus.

Best Practice | 5 Sep 16

Fewer than a fifth (17%) of UK advisers think that clients who feel squeezed keeping up with bills and repayments would put any extra money towards their pension savings, research from Royal London has found.

Best Practice | 5 Sep 16

Prudential is expanding its support for advisers with the launch of Knowledge TV, offering continuing professional development (CPD) certified ‘box sets’, technical insights, and online demonstrations.

Macro Views | 2 Sep 16

The Brexit vote has had a wider impact beyond the UK and Europe, temporarily derailing the US Federal Reserve’s plan to raise interest rates and allowing other governments to argue that there is a crisis under way that needs to be addressed with more forceful stimulus. Japan is a case in point.