Scottish Widows has appointed Maria Nazarova-Doyle as its new head of pension investment propositions.

Key Group has promoted its strategy director, Russell Warwick, to group B2B distribution director.

Scottish Building Society has launched a five-year fixed rate retirement interest-only mortgage at 3.49%.

Broker criteria searches showed significant variation in the residential and equity release categories in November, according to the latest figures from Knowledge Bank.

Just has become the fifth addition to TMA Club's equity release panel, joining Hodge Lifetime, OneFamily, more 2 life and LV=.

Pure Retirement has released new adviser-facing video content, including a webinar on vulnerable customers.

Leeds Building Society has launched the first retirement interest-only (RIO) mortgages with cashback and no product fee.

An increasing number of people still don’t understand equity release, according to research from Canada Life.

Only 28% of under 35s and 35% of those aged 35 to 54 think the State Pension will still be around when they reach retirement, according to research from Hargreaves Lansdown.

More than two-thirds of advisers think that the need to pay off increased levels of debt in retirement will cause the equity release market to expand in 2020, according to a survey by Canada Life.