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The Treasury has issued a veiled threat to unions to withhold industrial action or risk more harsh reforms to public sector pensions.

Pensions minister Steve Webb faced heckling and difficult questions at a National Pensioners Convention (NPC) event yesterday.

The government has reiterated it will not introduce legislation to override pension scheme indexation rules.

Public sector unions are gearing up for a national strike on 30 June to protest against pension changes proposed by Lord Hutton.

This week's Retirement Planner quick-fire poll asks: How would you improve the equity release market?

Financial secretary to the Treasury Mark Hoban has defended auto-enrolment and the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) after a senior pension adviser labeled them the next mis-selling scandal.

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LV= will allow its SIPP customers to use Barclays Stockbrokers' execution-only trading platform to invest their pension assets.

Threadneedle will close down its retail defined contribution (DC) pension business and will advise all investors to move their pension products to Legal and General (L&G).