Earlier this month, American Express announced it was to 'temporarily halt' its pension contributions for 18 months, but considering the impact of this decision and the moves by other global companies...

MPs' final salary pension scheme must be removed because it is ineffective in recruiting and retaining talented staff and takes unnecessary risk with taxpayers' money, according to the CIPD.

Staff at Barclays are to be balloted on strike action over the bank's decision to close its final salary pension scheme.

American Express has 'temporarily halted' its pension contributions for 18 months.

RSA Insurance Group has taken action to reduce its pension schemes' exposure to longevity and market risk by insuring 1.9 billion of scheme liabilities with Goldman Sachs.

Almost nine out of 10 employers (89%) think their number one pensions priority will be to reduce costs.

Personal Accounts could lead to 200,000 job losses - hitting small firms especially hard - according to the University of Warwick's Institute for Employment Research.

Young employees find it hard to see the value of saving into a pension scheme when they have more pressing demands on their finances. David Woods considers alternative forms of saving.

Proposals to increase taxpayers' contributions to MPs' final pensions have been dropped in a "knee jerk reaction on the back of the recent expense scandal" according to pensions actuaries.

More than nine out of 10 employers (96%) are planning to make changes to their pension provision, according to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).

Six out of 10 employees who choose not to join a company pension are not aware of how much their employer would contribute if they were a member.

Sir Fred Goodwin, former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, has agreed to reduce his pension by 200,000 per year.