The Pensions Regulator plans to reduce risk around pensions to take some pressure off employers and trustees.

Confidence in pension schemes is slowly but surely improving, according to the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF).

Aon Consulting has lowered its standard pension contributions by as much as 50% for some staff to lower costs and achieve greater efficiencies.

Pension providers AXA, Friends Provident and Prudential have announced they will no longer pay commissions to advisers for selling their group personal pension (GPP) products.

Ex-head of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Sir Fred Goodwin is reported to be considering voluntarily reducing his 703,000 pension.

High earners and pension scheme members could suffer because of the Budget, due to be announced at the end of the month.

UK companies recorded an aggregate pension deficit of 36 billion yesterday - marking a drop of 46 billion from the 10 billion pension surplus at the end of March 2009.

Half of UK pension scheme trustees do not know how the recession is impacting their funding position, although 60% get regular updates from their actuarial organisation.

Less than half (43%) of employees think their pension is safe and a quarter do not have a positive or negative view - implying they do not fully understand the financial implications, according to JLT...

The Government has announced employers will be allowed 90 days before they auto-enrol staff into private pension schemes after 2012.

Britain's defined-contribution (DC) pension assets plunged by 42 billion in February, losing 10% of their value.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) last year paid 73 million in benefits to dead people - mostly in pension payments.