Investment

The government "should not pay much attention" to unions' threats to strike over public sector pension and pay reforms, chief Treasury secretary Danny Alexander has said.

Lighthouse Financial Advice has agreed a three-year contract extension to provide advice services to the 17,000 members of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL).

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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has proposed to bring the auto-enrolment earnings thresholds into line with the personal tax limits for 2013/14.

More than half of the UK population has never received financial advice or cannot recall receiving any, research from the Money Advice Service (MAS) has suggested.

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The government has responded to union threats of a general strike by refusing any further negotiation of public sector pension and pay reform.

Lesbian, gay and bisexual people are far more likely to rely on personal and occupational pensions than their heterosexual peers, research from LGB equality group Stonewall says.

More than half of the working population is still unaware of the government's automatic enrolment programme, just three weeks before its launch, a report has found.