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Aviva is reviewing more than half of its jobs in Ireland as it plans to move its Dublin headquarters to London, according to reports.

Retirement Planner's roundup of the top pension stories.

Pension professionals, advisers, businesses and consumer groups have responded to a Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) inquiry into auto-enrolment and the National Employment Savings Trust.

Public sector workers employed in higher education should be allowed to enrol into the National Employment Savings Trust NEST), universities and colleges say.

The government must address the record drop in public confidence in pensions or risk mass opt-outs from auto-enrolment, a trade body warns.

Financial secretary to the Treasury Mark Hoban has said the government will not allow European regulators to overrule it on pensions.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has confirmed the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will this autumn propose reforms to the system of transferring small pension pots.

SIPP provider AJ Bell has called on the government to reverse some of its income drawdown reforms.

Employee benefit consultant Bluefin Corporate has launched Retirement Gateway, a suite of tools to help employees plan their retirement.

An influential Liberal Democrat think tank will propose increasing the scope of inheritance tax (IHT) at the party conference next week, saying it had "become almost voluntary".