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Aviva to launch retirement division to tackle biggest global 'financial challenge'
Aviva has set out its strategy to launch an investments, savings and retirement division as it seeks to simplify its overall business.
Pensions bill derailed again as general election called
Parliament expected to be dissolved 6 November
Thomas Cook pension schemes expected to enter PPF
Entered liquidation on Monday
UK retirement system sticks at world's 17th best
Iceland takes top spot
Thérèse Coffey becomes work and pensions secretary after Amber Rudd resigns
Seventh DWP head since 2015
Court blocks £12bn annuity transfer from Prudential to Rothesay Life
Granted leave to appeal the judgement
Bulk annuity market breaks yet another record with £17bn of first half deals
Up £10bn year-on-year
Guy Opperman reappointed as pensions and financial inclusion minister
Under Boris Johnson
Amber Rudd to remain work and pensions secretary
In office eight months
Government will not legislate to equalise widowers' survivor benefits
No further retrospective changes
Government denied leave to appeal £4bn-a-year discrimination ruling
Public service pensions
Opperman: I can see force of fresh pensions commission
Last commission convened in 2002
Occupational scheme membership rises to 45.6 million people
69% of general population
Environment Agency fund joins global push for environmental impact disclosure
Represents £8trn in assets
Pension participation rises to 87% of eligible workers
AE's 'truly staggering' impact
XPS to buy Royal London's corporate pensions business
46 staff members to move
Freedom withdrawals pass £25bn; Employee tax relief receipts up to £4.3bn
£38.4bn total pension tax relief
'Big four' must split audit and consultancy work, says CMA
Must appoint separate CEOs and boards
DWP spends £800,000 on Gogglebox adverts
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PPF publishes three-year plan to manage volatility and boost member satisfaction
'Setting out longer-term view'
Money and Pensions Service launches with plea on financial wellbeing
'Service is big step'
Trustee given 40-month jail sentence after embezzling £290,000 of scheme funds
Focusplay Retirement Benefit Scheme
Pensioner income from occupational schemes falls for first time since 2005
A 27.8% average gross income
Single Financial Guidance Body renamed Money and Pensions Service
'Service has vital role to play'
Government will not 'force pace of change' in AE
Guy Opperman has rejected calls to speed up changes to auto-enrolment (AE) despite increasing pressure to boost contribution rates and overall savings pots.
DB deficit falls £8.8bn over January, says PPF
From £32bn to £23bn
Bosses who play 'fast and loose' with pensions face seven years in prison
Fines of up to £1m
TPR confirms end to 'serious' admin issues at Now Pensions
Around £18m not collected
PPF: DB universe drops back into red
£31.9bn deficit
DWP fixes 'nonsensical' no-deal Brexit investment regulations
'Pension schemes breathe a sigh of relief'
Financial guidance bodies merge under temporary SFGB name
Responsible for first pensions dashboard
Two arrested as TPR probes suspected £18m pension fraud
370 people may have transferred
Chappell handed £124,000 penalty for 'deliberate' inaction in BHS probe
Bought retailer in March 2016
DB schemes to pay out third of a trillion pounds in next three years
£300bn of liabilities
Scottish Budget income tax decision widens pension tax relief gap
Six income tax band thresholds
Net pay issue to widen as AE lower earnings limit rise confirmed
Lower earnings limit rise to £104 per year
Four fifths of LISA users also save into workplace pensions
Lisa used as 'top-up'
Amber Rudd named work and pensions secretary
Follows McVey's resignation
Esther McVey resigns as DWP secretary of state
'I cannot defend this Brexit'
No-deal Brexit regulations to render scheme investments illegal
Proposed draft regulations on pension scheme investment in the event of a no-deal Brexit would see schemes breaching the law from day one.
Implementation of Lloyds GMP ruling will be 'simpler than it looks'
Legal experts suggest
GMPs must be equalised and arrears paid, High Court rules
135,000 scheme members affected
TPR and FCA to review consumer pensions journey in joint strategy
Decade-long commitment
Aegon promotes Kate Smith to head of master trust
Follows acquisition of BlackRock's DC platform
HMRC 'looking at opportunities' to address net-pay tax anomaly
The government is set to review an anomaly which sees lower-paid workers in the majority of master trusts lose out on tax relief, it has confirmed.