The UK's highest court has overturned a ruling that would have placed occupational pension schemes ahead of most other creditors in the event a company goes bust.

Pensions minister Steve Webb explains the significant role large scale collective defined contribution (CDC) could play in the UK.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has pledged to give the raft of legislation working its way through parliament time to bed in, and not introduce any more major reforms.

Providers must police employer pension contributions into auto-enrolment schemes but The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has relaxed its position on how missed payments are reported.

Pension schemes have avoided being forced to find £450bn worth of extra cash after the European Commission scrapped its Solvency II plans today.

A European pensions authority is investigating the viability of creating a single market for personal pension products across the continent.

Academics have launched a consultation to establish the best way to model defined contribution schemes which could have "uncomfortable implications for plan members".

More than a dozen pension schemes are undertaking medically underwritten bulk annuity deals with Partnership, after the first two ‘enhanced buy-ins' were completed by the insurer last year.

The government has confirmed it will end tax relief on contributions to pension schemes set up for employees' spouses or families as part of a clampdown on avoidance.

The Chancellor has been urged by a leading policy expert to consider scrapping salary sacrifice to save the treasury billions of pounds a year.