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New EU rules on the solvency of workplace pensions could force some Defined Benefit (DB) schemes to close, the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) warns.

Just Retirement's new business in the three months from April-June 2010 is up 14.9% on the same period last year at £245.5m.

Tata Consultancy Services will administer the NEST national savings scheme until at least 2020, it was confirmed today.

The FSA is considering limiting the role brokers play in assessing customers' affordability by simplifying the criteria they currently use.

Age UK is calling for more tailored products and services for the elderly, as they are much harder hit by the cost of inflation than the rest of the population.

SIPP provider Hornbuckle Mitchell has launched an in-house spousal bypass trust which aims to help investors reduce inheritance tax liabilities.

Thousands of Equitable Life victims who annuitised before 1992 will receive no compensation despite a proposed amendment to include them in the government's repayments package.

The level of compensation due to 10,000 Equitable Life customers who bought with-profits annuities before 1992 would be "impossible to calculate", Tory MP Jonathon Evans says.

The government plans to allow people who hold pensions to access debt relief orders (DROs), which provide a cheaper alternative to bankruptcy.

Paradigm Pensions' new employee benefits platform, Jargon Free Benefits, has been launched on Steve Bee's Jargon Free Pensions website.