pensions

A permanent Pensions Commission should be established to ensure the link between increasing longevity and a rising state pension age remains fair, claims the Actuarial Profession.

CAMPAIGNERS WILL gear up for a battle for government compensation for 85,000 people who lost pension benefits when their occupational schemes were wound up, reports The Financial Times .

Clerical Medical has announced it will assume the role of ‘authorised practitioner' of a pension scheme if asked to by the trustees.

Reform of the decumulation period of retirement has been largely overlooked by the government, regulators and the savings industry as a way of encouraging saving, claims the Actuarial Profession.

THE GOVERNMENT FACES a £5bn bill to compensate 85,000 workers who lost their pensions when their employers went bust, amid growing speculation that a report this week by the parliamentary ombudsman will pin the blame on the Department for Work and Pensions...

A charging scale for handling pension sharing orders when scheme members divorce has been updated by the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF).

A shift towards defined contribution (DC) pension schemes, and the growing use of hedge funds is creating a vicious circle of short-termism which is harming the economy, claims the Trades Union Congress (TUC).

Large numbers of businesses are failing to tell their employees of the changes to their pension schemes following A-Day, claims Prudential.

Final regulations to outlaw age discrimination in the workplace have been published and laid before parliament by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).

THE COUNTRY'S THREE main business groups have slammed the Chancellor for overseeing a collapse in the country's international competitiveness and called on him to slash corporation tax in the Budget, reports The Daily Telegraph .