Pensions

In what cynics would have called inevitable, the government yesterday backed down on auto-enrolment plans.

SIPP provider Pointon York has taken itself off the market after a two-month sale process.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has highlighted the role of IFAs in making pensions reform a success, but said he anticipated it would be difficult communicating the changes to the public.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) will press ahead with plans to force pension providers and advisers to reveal the effect of adviser charging on pension plans at the point of sale.

The news from Scottish Widows that 50% of women are now saving properly in pensions is welcome, but retirement equality is still a long way off.

Members of the Unison trade union have voted in favour of strike action on 30 November in response to public sector pension reforms.

Aviva's UK life and pensions sales increased by 6% to £8.1m during the nine months to 30 September.

The rise of the simple SIPP is threatening traditional plans, say advisers...

The Treasury's "reference scheme" is being used as the basis on which a new public sector pension scheme will be designed. We look at what has changed.

Labour has made a last attempt to stall the government's increase to the state pension age (SPA) in the very last stages of the Pensions Bill.