Useful links

If you would like to recommend a site, please email us with the address and a brief description of what the site covers and why you would like it to be considered.

Group company websites

Nortel Networks’ Group Corporate Website

This site contains news and information on the products and services offered by the Nortel Networks Corporation. Nortel designs, develops, manufactures, markets, sells, finances, installs and services fully digital telecommunications systems.

Pensioner sites

Help the Aged

This site provides practical support to help older people live independent lives, particularly those who are frail, isolated, or poor.

Financial Advisory Services

Independent Financial Adviser Promotion

IFAP will help you if you are looking for financial advice from independent advisers. Find IFAs online by postcode for advice on investments, savings, pensions, tax planning and more.

IFA Window

IFA Window is a gateway to local independent financial advisers who can provide information on pensions, mortgages, investments, savings, and insurance.

Government websites

The Pensions Service

Part of the Department for Work and Pensions, the Pensions Service is responsible for delivering support and advice to people of working age, employers, pensioners, families and children and disabled people. One of its key aims is to help citizens become financially independent.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA)

The FSA is an independent body that regulates the financial services industry in the UK. This link takes you to the Money Made Clear part of the FSA.

It has four main aims:

• Maintaining confidence in the UK financial system.
• Promoting public understanding of the financial system.
• Securing the right degree of protection for consumers.
• Helping to reduce financial crime.

The Consumer Help area of this site includes a Budget Planner and a Pensions Calculator

The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS)

TPAS is a non-profit organisation which seeks to help any member of the public who has a problem, complaint or dispute with their occupational or private pension arrangement.

The Pensions Ombudsman

The Pensions Ombudsman investigates and decides complaints and disputes about the way that pension plans are run.

The Pensions Regulator

The Pensions Regulator was set up under the Finance Act 2004 and came into existence in April 2005. The Regulator's primary responsibility is to protect the benefits of members of work based pension plans. The You can look up contact details of former pension schemes in the Pensions Tracing service section of this site.

The Pension Protection Fund

Established by the Pensions Act 2004, the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) opened its doors for  business in April 2005 and is run by an independent body. It pays compensation to members of defined benefit plans whose employer has gone bust and where there are not enough assets in the Plan to buy benefits at PPF levels of compensation or above.

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