South Wales Police has outsourced its pensions administration services to Capita Hartshead.

UK - Union Unite has warned of a "pensions backlash" from thousands of IBM employees over plans to close its final salary pension schemes to future accrual.

Some 60% of companies have responded to the downturn by freezing salary levels in the past year, Hewitt New Bridge Street research shows.

The Personal Accounts Delivery Authority is set to launch a myth busting programme to explain how the national pension saving scheme will work from 2012.

Nearly half of employers with defined benefit schemes still open to active members think they will close them to future accrual within three years, Watson Wyatt research reveals.

Pension fund that dropped £8bn pays £1.8m in bonuses; Insurers sense that pain may come from Solvency II

Union Unite has warned of a "pensions backlash" from thousands of IBM employees over plans to close its final salary pension schemes to future accrual.

Ministerial salaries may be cut if Conservatives are elected; European high-yield bonds are in demand

Some 71% of defined contribution savers who received a "wake-up pack" from providers six months before retirement better understood their options, Association of British Insurers research shows.

Hymans Robertson has boosted its investment consulting team with two new appointments.