Equity exposure is rising among pension funds as returns boomed in 2009, according to BNY Mellon Asset Servicing.

HM Treasury has trebled its estimate of the one-off costs that pension schemes, employers and individuals will incur as a result of the tax on higher earners' pension contributions it is introducing from 2011, Towers Watson says.

Here it is: A full summary of the Government's decisions on pensions tax relief restrictions announced in today's Budget.

The government has rejected industry pleas to change the way it will implement pensions tax relief restrictions.

The Government is looking into scrapping the compulsory retirement age, Alistair Darling says.

Alistair Darling's third Budget is just hours away and, despite much industry speculation, we still have little idea what he might announce for the pensions market.

The expected charging structure for the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) has received a mixed reaction.

The Conservatives will aim to restore the health of occupational pensions, shadow work and pensions secretary Theresa May says.

The Treasury's announcement that it borrowed a further £4.3bn last month was unexpected to say the least.

It is clear that human beings are far from the ideal of homo economicus. Indeed, we make non-optimal choices all the time.