occupational pensions

The Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) has called for the creation of a standing pensions commission in a stinging rebuke on the Government's handling of private sector pensions.

Over a third of young people plan to start a pension before they hit the big 3-0 opening up a swathe of new advice business, research by Friends Provident suggests.

The financial performance of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes improved in November on the back of rising equity markets, according to the Pension Protection Fund (PPF).

A quarter of occupational pension schemes lack a strategy to monitor and mitigate risk, according to The Pensions Regulator.

Advisers are missing out on a "golden opportunity" by failing to exploit the crossover between personal and corporate clients, according to the founder of the Specialist Pensions Forum.

UK combined defined contribution (DC) pension assets fell £18bn in October compared to the previous month, according to Aon Consulting.

As many as 43% of pension fund schemes have no overall risk-mitigation strategy, research by HamishWilson suggests.

UK workers forgo over £5bn a year by failing to join company pension schemes; while a quarter of workers believe they are denied one, according to Prudential.

The National Association of Pension Funds is proposing the development of a Good Workplace Pensions Quality Mark by 2012.

The UK has been referred to the European Court of Justice for not fully implementing an internal EU Directive on pensions.