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The aggregate funding position of the 7,400 defined benefit pension funds monitored by the Pension Protection Fund worsened to a deficit of £173.2bn in August.

Employers should do more to help their staff effectively plan for retirement, Scottish Widows says.

Police in north Cornwall are working to identify a man's body found on a beach as they continue their search for missing Rowanmoor Pensions joint managing director David Seaton.

Thousands of British workers are bucking the belt-tightening trend by increasing payments into their personal pension, research suggests.

Royal Bank of Scotland is to cap future increases in pensionable pay to 2% a year or the rate of inflation, which ever is lower.

If you are 50 years of age or celebrating your fiftieth birthday between 6 October 2009 and 5 April 2010 and have been considering putting a little bit more money away into an Individual Savings Account (ISA), now is the time to take advantage.

Former Downing Street pensions' adviser Ros Altmann has lashed out at the Government's commitment to bankers' pensions.

Provider ‘wake-up' letters to pension clients nearing retirement arrive years too late, are too complex and should be scrapped, Just Retirement says.

Scottish Life has updated its series of technical information leaflets on income drawdown for financial advisers.

John Moret, director of sales and marketing at Suffolk Life, examines recent reports from the FSA concerning pension transfers and explains how the industry is likely to change