Pensions

The Government is not doing enough to help people save for retirement, a survey suggests.

The aggregate funding position - total assets minus total liabilities - of defined benefit schemes improved by over £40bn over the last month, the Pension Protection Fund says.

Falling house prices have wiped off £29bn from British pension pots this year as nearly a tenth of the population relies on property to fund their retirement, new research reveals.

Barclays staff are to be balloted for industrial action over the company's plans to close its final salary scheme to future accruals.

The pension deficit of FTSE100 company schemes has doubled since January to reach more than £300bn, Deloitte figures reveal.

Many consumers are unaware they can combine their pension pots, despite saying they would invest more if they could view their investments in one place.

Many defined contribution members' pension pots are worth less than the cash contributions into them, PricewaterhouseCoopers research reveals.

A laptop containing the unencrypted personal data of 109,000 Pensions Trust members has been stolen from software provider NorthgateArinso.

Advice on retirement planning was the most popular request on Unbiased.co.uk in the first three months of 2009, as consumers continue to worry about how the credit crunch will affect their pensions.

Sesame has become the latest network to approve MetLife's Retirement Portfolio which has been added to its Third Way product panel.