Union bosses have accused Remploy of planning to wind-up its defined benefit scheme after documents suggested trustees were seeking to pay off its deficit.

Alliance Boots is leaving itself open to mis-selling claims from its thousands of pensioners after it offered to change the way their plans are paid, its former finance chief said yesterday.

UK - Defined benefit schemes plunged £80bn ($125bn) further into deficit in September leaving more than 80% now with a funding void, according to the Pension Protection Fund.

Defined benefit schemes plunged £80bn further into deficit in September leaving more than 80% now with a funding void, according to the Pension Protection Fund.

The University and College Union has today started industrial action over changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme. Here's a plotted history.

Government has launched a consultation into increasing employee contribution rates for the local government pension scheme in a bid to save £900m.

Employers will accidentally bring their auto-enrolment staging date forward if they fail to separate current scheme members in receipt of benefits out of the company payroll, a legal expert warns.

Government should do more to open up the middle ground between defined benefit and defined contribution schemes to let "imaginative" hybrid schemes flourish, delegates heard.

Employers are facing pension scheme design challenges ahead of auto-enrolment due to overly complex legislation, a scheme manager says.

Schemes will remain locked into safe but unspectacular UK commercial property returns until the end of 2011 due to worsening global market conditions, a report concludes.