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The government has proposed changes to pension reform which will give smaller employers more time to prepare for auto-enrolment than previously planned.

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) last night published the application for fixed protection for the new lifetime allowance (LTA) on pension contributions.

Deficits of schemes monitored by the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) worsened last month, increasing from £8.3bn in June to £67.3bn at the end of July.

The National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) is expected to enrol anything between two and five million individuals nationwide from next year, so if scale is the key to transparency and potentially reducing charges, is NEST in the perfect position to...

SIPP investors' five favourite funds have been hit hard by the European and US debt crisis which took a heavy toll on equity markets.

The British Medical Association (BMA) has warned the government is refusing to cooperate in talks over cuts to the NHS pension scheme.

Fidelity has today launched its Workforce Management Service (WMS) for employers who will next year be trying to cope with auto-enrolling their staff into a workplace pension scheme.

Auto-enrolment queries are beginning to mount for The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) and now account for up to 3% of monthly calls.

The average director of a FTSE 100 company has a final salary pension worth £3.6m and paying out £174,963 per year, the High Pay Commission said.

Pension scheme analysts are urging trustees to keep their heads and avoid "feeding the frenzy" after global markets nosedived this week.