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Consultants advising employer pension scheme trustees are charging too much for their services, a consultant says.

The cost of auto-enrolment into workplace pension schemes will wipe out almost all of the savings made by the government's regulation bonfire.

The average worker in a defined contribution (DC)pension scheme has lost £1,300 a year of future retirement income in the last six months, Alexander Forbes said.

The Association of British Insurers' (ABI) annuity code of conduct is not radical enough, Tom McPhail, head of pensions research at Hargreaves Lansdown said.

Helen Morrissey looks at the ABI's recent proposals to increase use of the open market option and asks if they go far enough.

Pension scheme administrators need a "safe harbour" in which they can talk to scheme members about their pensions without fearing they have given regulated advice, the Pensions Administration Standards Authority (PASA) says.

Incomes from annuities have fallen 14% since the start of the year due to stock market turmoil.

Independent financial advisers wrote more than three quarters of the life and pensions business in 2010, according to figures from the Association of British Insurers (ABI).

A financial adviser and a former banker have launched a financial planning tool which projects retirement incomes.

Head teachers may join in a day of strikes over reforms of their pensions on 30 November.