UK workers would sacrifice pay for bigger pension contribution from employer

Pensions top the list of benefits for which employees would sacrifice their hard-earned wages today in order to provide for a more financially-secure retirement.

Employers are still dragging their feet on pensions auto-enrolment

More than a third of UK employers have still not considered the impact of pensions auto-enrolment on their business.

Forum of Private Business warns pensions and retirement rule changes will act as discincentive to recruitment

Recent changes to pensions and retirement rules will hamper job creation among smaller firms, according to the Forum of Private Business.

Auto-enrolment into occupational pensions to go ahead but with simpler rules than envisaged

It's official: every employer will have to offer a company pension from 2012 following the latest Government review.

The occupational system is broken and must be fixed

The occupational pensions system is broken, says National Association of Pension Funds chief executive Joanne Segars. It must be fixed.

Comprehensive Spending Review: Auto enrolment and NEST given the official go-ahead

Auto enrolment and NEST have been given the go-ahead in the Comprehensive Spending Review but this will bring yet more opportunities and challenges for employers and financial services services before...

Comprehensive Spending Review: state pension age to rise to 66 by 2020

The state pension age for both men and women is to rise to 66 by 2020, six years earlier than previously announced, the chancellor of the Exchequer has revealed.

Pensions body NAPF closes its final-salary pension to new recruits

The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has closed its final-salary defined-benefit (DB) scheme to new members of staff.

HR and finance directors are left dazed and confused by NEST and pensions overhaul

In two years' time pension provision within UK companies is due for the most radical overhaul ever seen, with the introduction of the National Employers Savings Trust, or NEST as it is more commonly...

A luke warm response from industry experts to Government's proposed pensions tax changes

In a bid to 'simplify' the pensions system, the Government has cut back on the amount of savings staff can pay into their pension pots before being taxed, but industry experts have welcomed the...

Confusion exists over chancellor's proposal to link pension income rises to Consumer Price Index

Payments from public sector pensions, the State Second Pension and some private-sector defined-benefit pensions will rise by 3.1% instead of 4.6% next year, according to Towers Watson.

Hutton promises a "transparent and simple" pensions system for the public sector

On the very afternoon Lord Hutton, chairman of the Government's Independent Public Service Commission, launched his interim report on public-sector pensions, he faced the pensions industry itself with...

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