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This week's Retirement Planner quick-fire poll asks:Are you preparing your clients for the roll-out of auto-enrolment?

Retirement Planner's roundup of the top pension stories

The government must confirm if auto-enrolment is to be put on hold to prevent damage to businesses, following reports it could be delayed, industry figures say.

Almost 100 employers have signed up to use the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) ahead of schedule.

Just Retirement's value of new business after tax rose almost 50% to £82.8m for the year ending 30 June 2011.

SIPP provider Curtis Banks has published a list of the investments it is least likely to accept into its pensions.

Gregg McClymont, MP for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East, is the new shadow pensions minister.

Labour has made a final attempt to change the government's reforms of women's state pensions.

Almost half of UK residents (45%) are unclear whether they chose the default option when they last reviewed their occupational pension according to research by Baring Asset Management.

Rachel Reeves has been promoted to shadow chief secretary for the Treasury in the Labour cabinet reshuffle, but her replacement in the pensions brief has not been announced.