Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has defended his party's support for the coalition's spending cuts and pledged to create a "firewall" to protect retail banking customers from speculative investments.

Standard Life has extended its trust-based pension to offer a defined contribution (DC) master trust arrangement for employers unable to appoint their own trustees.

A financial adviser has launched a pension scheme to directly compete with the government-backed, and taxpayer funded, National Employment Savings Trust (NEST).

Steve Lewis, founder of Retirement Partnership, has been hired by LV= as head of distribution for retirement products.

Aviva is reviewing more than half of its jobs in Ireland as it plans to move its Dublin headquarters to London, according to reports.

Almost three quarters of people aged over 55 believe paying for long-term care (LTC) should not be an individual's responsibility, Aviva research suggests.

Pension professionals, advisers, businesses and consumer groups have responded to a Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) inquiry into auto-enrolment and the National Employment Savings Trust.

Public sector workers employed in higher education should be allowed to enrol into the National Employment Savings Trust NEST), universities and colleges say.

Financial secretary to the Treasury Mark Hoban has said the government will not allow European regulators to overrule it on pensions.

The Liberal Democrats have passed a policy motion to urge the government to accept the recommendations in the Dilnot Report on long term care (LTC).