occupational pensions

Retirement Planner's round up of the top pension stories today.

Source Pensions, a new platform for occupational pension schemes, was today launched in the UK.

The Supreme Court has dismissed the Department for Work and Pensions' appeal in the long running Bridge v Yates case.

The low charges set by the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) will set a benchmark with which pension providers will have to compete, Legal & General (L&G) said.

Tomorrow, thousands of public sector workers will strike over proposed reforms to their pensions. But just how do they compare to private sector provision?

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

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.

The Treasury has proposed to remove tax relief on compensation payments for pension mis-selling.

Auto-enrolment will trigger a "second crisis of pensions mis-selling" which will hit the poor hardest, an adviser at Deloitte has claimed.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) will now include members of group personal pensions (GPPs) in its rules protecting people in workplace schemes from poor advice.