The fall out has continued this morning after the Government announced yesterday that the rise in the state pension age from 67 to 68 will be brought forward.

A firm told to cease all regulated activity by the FCA after it breached an agreement to stop advising on pension transfers and another, named Financial Planning & Investment Limited, have both been declared in default.

The number of deaths of people aged 75 fell last year.

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The rise in the state pension age from 67 to 68 will be brought forward, it has just been announced in Parliament.

FinTech firms will get powers to access data from all of a consumer’s bank accounts.

A three time Ashes winning ex-England cricket star has joined a Financial Planning firm’s nine-day 850-mile cycle challenge.

Former Institute of Financial Planning President Julie Lord writes in her latest column for Financial Planning Today magazine that planners are facing a challenge to serve an increasing number of clients aged 80 and above.

More than two out of five of advisers (44 per cent) have seen a rise in the past year in the number of insistent clients wanting to push ahead with defined benefit pension transfers despite recommendations against.

Divorces between couples aged over 65 have increased by almost 40%, according to new research released by the Office for National Statistics.

The latest issue of Financial Planning Today, our new 40-page magazine for Financial Planners and Paraplanners, is now live online to all readers.