A financial adviser firm - Chesterton Grant Limited of Yorkshire - has been declared as failed by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme after a complaint about SIPP advice against the firm was upheld.

Most of failed Sipp firm PSG SIPP Ltd (PSGS), has been sold to Alltrust Services Limited with one part, Unity SIPP, sold to London & Colonial.

HMRC repaid £44.3m to savers who paid too much tax when first accessing their pension between 1 July and 30 September.

Over two thirds (69%) of Britons believe retiring in our sixties will become a thing of the past, according to new research.

I have recently returned from nearly two months away from anything to do with pensions (well, aside from deciding I need a bigger fund to spend more time in all the places we visited, once we don’t have the kids in tow!).