HM Treasury

Tax-relief restrictions should be scrapped and the government must issue more long-dated and index-linked gilts, the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) says.

The Treasury could still hit its budget deficit target for the year despite worse-than-expected January public borrowing figures, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) says.

The long-term attractiveness of pensions for very high earners was put in further doubt as a result of the changes within the pre-budget report in December.

The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has appointed former director general of the Treasury Mark Neale as chief executive officer.

Money raised through the Landsbanki wind-up will cover 100% of Icesave compensation costs to the UK only if the Government avoids a firesale, says the Treasury.

As we near the end of the year and start to reflect on the past twelve months whilst looking forward to the next with a renewed sense of vigour and positivity, my over-riding hope for 2010 is that we finally see some better solutions in the pensions arena....

The Government says it will explore ways of encouraging a more 'sustainable, transparent and standardised' mortgage-backed securities market in the UK.

A Treasury gilt auction failed for the first time in seven years today as investor fears grow on the state of the Government's finances.

As the housing market continues to struggle and the Bank of England Base Rate remains historically low, Matthew Wyles asks how long it will take for the economy to recuperate following these testing times.

UK taxpayers will own as much as 43.5% of the proposed Lloyds TSB and HBOS ‘superbank', under the new revised takeover terms.