occupational pensions

Paradigm Pensions' new employee benefits platform, Jargon Free Benefits, has been launched on Steve Bee's Jargon Free Pensions website.

The government has "grossly underestimated" the costs to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of auto-enrolling employees into a workplace pension scheme, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) says.

FSA plans to include group personal pensions (GPPs) in existing rules regarding pensions advice could create barriers to saving and additional costs to employers, industry figures say.

The FSA may extend its rules on pension selling and advice to cover all workplace pension schemes including group personal pensions (GPPs).

Several high-profile BBC journalists walked out this morning in a strike against the broadcaster's proposed pension reforms.

The government's new national pension scheme has an unbalanced investment remit that will "disappoint" savers, advisers say.

State Street Corporation has been appointed as fund administrator for the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) as the scheme's investment mandates are put out to tender.

The majority of people in the UK do not know what the impact of the switch from linking defined benefit (DB) pension schemes from RPI to CPI, Aon Hewitt says.

Pensions minister Steve Webb offered reassurance auto-enrolment and NEST would not lead businesses to ‘dumb down' their pension schemes.

Fewer than one in five retired people feel it is their responsibility to leave money to their children, according to a study from Friends Provident.