The average retirement age has risen from 63.8 years to 64.6 years for men and from 61.2 years to 62.3 years for women between 2004 and 2010, according to findings from the Office for National...

The advice submitted by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) to the European Commission on an EU Pensions Directive based on Solvency II, has sparked anger in the UK...

The three most pressing benefits issues facing employers are managing cost; addressing low levels of employee engagement; and dealing with legislative changes, according to Aon Hewitt.

The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP) has found almost three quarters of employers have not started communicating to employees about automatic enrolment, which starts to roll in from...

One in seven employers in the voluntary sector are still ‘completely in the dark’ when it comes to auto-enrolment and their responsibilities towards employees, according to The Pensions Trust.

The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), CBI and TUC have written to the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso warning against the introduction of an EU Pensions...

The Government looks set to debate pensions tax relief ahead of next month’s Budget statement, with senior Liberal Democrats committed to restrict or scrap the higher rate of pensions tax relief.

Millions of private sector workers saving for their retirement are stuck with a “hugely unfair and opaque annuity system” which cuts up to £1 billion off pension incomes every year, the National...

The Government has published a package of regulation to help employers prepare for automatic enrolment into workplace pensions.

Employers have failed to take the right steps to assess the true cost of auto-enrolment, according to pensions consultancy, Punter Southall.

The National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) has embarked on a series of regional roadshows for large employers and their financial advisers, to offer information about the workplace pension changes,...

A revised timetable for when employers of all sizes must start enrolling their staff in a workplace pension has been set out by the Government.