£1m: The lifetime allowance for pension contributions announced in the Summer Budget, reduced from £1.25m bit.ly/1eMdScs
37% of employers think that the introduction of the pension freedoms has encouraged them to offer a greater level of financial education to their staff (Source: Close Brothers Asset Management research, published July 2015) bit.ly/1CtrUep
83% of those that have chosen to take up the pension freedoms options have opted to take all of their savings as cash (Source: BlackRock’s workplace pensions business data, released July 2015) bit.ly/1ftSiKT
11,500 income drawdown contracts were sold by members of the Association of British Insurers (ABI) in the first quarter of 2015 (Source: ABI’s Retirement income statistics Q1 2015) bit.ly/1gs29B2
59% of workers do not know how much their employer contributes towards their pension (Source: Aegon, July 2015) bit.ly/1NYqyJB
£10,000: The minimum amount to which the annual allowance will be tapered down to for those with incomes above £150,000, effective from April 2016 bit.ly/1L2n74I
20% of employees are not saving anything towards their retirement (Source: 11th annual Scottish Widows Retirement report, June 2015) bit.ly/1NTTUbz
40% cited pensions as the safest way to save for retirement for the July 2012 to June 2014 period, up from 35% in July 2010 to June 2012 (Source: Office for National Statistics’ Wealth and assets survey) bit.ly/1UJAsn6
£14,000: The average annual income that 45- to 55-year-olds expect to receive during retirement (Source: Prudential, June 2015) bit.ly/1HpAmXD
35% of 16- to 19-year-olds expect to receive a pension as standard in their first job (Source: Adecco, March 2015) bit.ly/1Mkt63K