The head of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has proposed an expansion of the organisation's mandate and called for the creation of an "EU retirement savings product".

Auto-enrolment will increase the proportion of workers in occupational schemes from one in two to four in five according to research from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

A high court judge has ruled against the 22 pension funds attempting to sue Henderson Equity Partners for allegedly breaching the mandate for its Private Finance Initiative Secondary Fund II.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is to launch an additional measure of consumer prices inflation which includes housing costs.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is considering setting up a lifeboat fund for defined contribution (DC) schemes funded by a levy on contributions.

Fewer pension scheme members will be offered the chance to transfer out following the introduction of a voluntary code of conduct and changes in how members are advised, law firm Osborne Clarke has said.

Labour front benchers have urged the government to work with the opposition, business and trade unions to protect British interests from planned European regulation of the pensions and insurance industries.

Only one in ten employers understands how to discharge their duties under auto-enrolment, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) research has found.

Confidence in defined contribution (DC)pensions has fallen so low that the majority of workers would choose an inferior financial reward over a 10% boost to their employer contribution, research has found.

Labour shadow pensions minister Gregg McClymont has set out ten principles he believes will "end rip-offs in private pensions".