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<title>Interview transcript: Nick Poyntz-Wright</title>
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<description>The FCA’s head of insurance talks to Josephine Cumbo</description>
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<title>Calls for annuity website review</title>
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<description>Consumer Panel member says better disclosure of costs and commissions is needed before the annuity sale process begins</description>
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<title>High auto-enrolment pension fees face ban</title>
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<description>New legislation altering state benefits also contains some unexpected protections that seek to address concerns about overcharging</description>
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<title>Q&amp;A: State pension and long-term care</title>
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<description>Reforms to be introduced in parliament this year will see big changes to the state pension and funding for long-term care from 2016</description>
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<title>Arrests made over alleged pension scam</title>
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<description>Officers estimate that thousands of people may have released up to £400m of early pension funds into non-existent or high-risk investments</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 21:53:45 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>PPF warned to expect bigger bills</title>
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<description>Clearest signal yet to trustees of defined benefit schemes to take a more lenient approach with companies struggling to plug their deficits</description>
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<title>Appetite grows for pension savings</title>
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<description>New study released by pension consultants Towers Watson suggests the initiative is a huge success at FTSE 100 companies</description>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 17:42:05 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nervous wait for Harlequin investors</title>
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<description>Investors in troubled overseas luxury resort developer Harlequin hope to thrash out a rescue plan with the firm</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 17:22:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Spain’s bankers reap pension jackpot</title>
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<description>Bonuses may be smaller than elsewhere, but the departure of Santander’s Alfredo Sáenz as highlighted how the elite enjoy enormous retirement benefits</description>
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<title>Pension pots to follow members</title>
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<description>Workers enrolled in employer pension schemes will have these savings automatically move with them when they change jobs</description>
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<description>Supermarket group poised to launch a launch a comparison service to introduce customers to rival pension providers</description>
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<title>MPs urge pension regulation overhaul</title>
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<description>Select committee says current system of separate regulators for trust-based and contract-based schemes is “incredibly confusing”</description>
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<title>DWP to ease transfer of workers’ pensions</title>
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<description>The department’s ‘pot follows member’ proposal will allow workplace pensions of £10,000 or less to transfer to an employee’s new job</description>
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<title>Tesco to break into pension comparisons</title>
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<description>Tesco, Britain’s biggest retailer, is preparing to shake up the £12bn retirement income market by launching a new online comparison service for pension annuities.</description>
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<title>How to ... spot corporate pension problems</title>
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<description>You can avoid companies with looming pension fund black holes, if you look for clues in the right places</description>
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<title>Facing the annuity conundrum</title>
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<description>Choosing how to convert savings into retirement income is one of the biggest decisions most of us will face in later life</description>
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<title>Dairy Crest plugs pension gap – with cheese</title>
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<description>One of the UK’s big three milk suppliers tackles its pension deficit of £84m with plans to transfer 20m kg of maturing asset worth £60m to its fund</description>
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<description>Online search service for enhanced annuities attracts ‘hefty’ 3.5% non-advised commission fee</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:36:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nearly one in four lose pension pots</title>
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<description>Many adults unsure how to locate missing benefits from former employers</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:11:06 GMT</pubDate>
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