pensions

WHILE THE NATION'S media is firmly fixed on the Butler report, the Guardian's business pages reveal senior civil servants, judges and MPs will escape the proposed higher pension tax on any contributions over £1.5m which could lead to accusations of...

THE CONSERVATIVE Party will ABOLISH the Financial Services Authority in its current form if it wins the next general election, according to a report in this weekend's Sunday Telegraph.

Consumers should be scared into long-term savings if Britain is to avoid seeing the current savings gap turn into a full-blown pensions crisis, warns a pension expert.

The Pensions Advisory Service has received almost 20% more complaints from members of occupational and personal pension schemes over the last 12 months than it did during the previous year.

Around 65,000 pension scheme members have already suffered extensive losses following their schemes being wound-up by insolvent employers, reveals new findings by the Department for Work and Pensions.

Research on behalf of the Equal Opportunities Commission into the arguments for and against unisex annuities has led the Pensions Policy Institute to conclude there are no good reasons why such policy should not be implemented.

Employees from 100 selected firms will start receiving pension information packs devised by the Department for Work and Pensions as part of a pilot to test the impact of savings advice in the workplace.

One in four UK companies say they consider, or would consider, giving employees cash instead of offering a pension, says an international human resources consultancy.

Trustees could find themselves having to foot hefty compensation bills if they fail to ensure they have dealt with ALL the beneficiaries of a SIPP properly, warns SIPPs provider D A Phillips & Co.

Abbey for Intermediaries has developed a pension simplification pack for IFAs in the hopes it will help them ensure clients are well-prepared for coming pensions legislation.