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The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has announced it has assumed responsibility for the Fraud Compensation Fund, which replaces the Pensions Compensation Board.

The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has announced the new funding requirements for defined benefit occupational pensions schemes will come into force on 31 October 2005.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has published a series of three independent reports examining hybrid, or risk sharing, pension scheme designs.

Less than 10% of wealthy UK adults are convinced the State will be able to provide them with enough cash to live through retirement, new research indicates.

An extra £2bn in National Insurance (NI) rebates is needed to compensate those employers and members of company pension schemes opting out of the State Second Pension (S2P), new research indicates.

Product research firm Defaqto has produced a report in the s32 offerings of 15 pension providers, suggesting Clerical Medical, Prudential and Scottish Life offer the best options on the market.

Scottish Life's pensions e-information centre known as Technical Central has enhanced its technical and practical support provisions for IFAs ahead of A-Day.

The government's stakeholder range of savings have shown "disappointingly low sales", according to the latest life and pensions new business figures from the Association of British Insurers (ABI).

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has published a position paper on contracting out of the State Second Pension following the reports from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and Which?.

More than a third of UK pensioners are unable to afford to live how they had hoped in retirement, with the average person needing an extra £180,000 during their 25 year pension lifetime, new research indicates.