The UK pensions system is so badly designed it is a "toxic mix" which favours providers over savers and pushes people towards undersaving, Lord McFall says.

The National Association of Pension Funds is lobbying government to add a new objective for The Pensions Regulator - forcing it to promote the survival of workplace pensions.

Aries Pension has launched a Retail Prices Index revaluation table to help defined benefit pension schemes who have to keep using the same RPI measure of inflation to revalue benefits.

Changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme could be stalled indefinitely due to an ongoing dispute between employers and employees, a union warns.

The Financial Reporting Council wants to boost the strength of the UK Stewardship Code by monitoring the quality of communication between companies and shareholders.

UK - The Pension Protection Fund will modify how it calculates investment and insolvency risk to ensure a "stable and more predictable" levy for schemes, its chief executive says.

The Pension Protection Fund will modify how it calculates investment and insolvency risk to ensure a "stable and more predictable" levy for schemes, its chief executive says.

Gilt markets will escape unscathed from the abolition of compulsory annuitisation due to the small impact the policy change will have on bulk and individual annuity sales, experts forecast.

UK defined contribution schemes should stop focusing on outperforming markets and start building "next generation" schemes designed around delivering retirement incomes, a Nobel prizewinning economist says.

EUROPE - Sovereign bondholders will be relegated down creditor lists if European policymakers push through plans for a bailout mechanism, Standard & Poor's warned.