Do proposed changes to accounting rules mean Armageddon for UK PLC

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) says its auto-enrolment policy is proving successful, with almost three quarters of the population aware of the flagship programme.

Consumer price inflation tumbled to 1.6% in July 2014, down from 1.9% in June 2014, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveals.

Executives at the UK's largest companies are increasingly opting to receive cash payments instead of pensions, research shows.

A new measure of inflation developed by the Office of National Statistics has had its official status downgraded a little over a year after it was first proposed.

International accounting standards for listed companies are riven by faultlines that are damaging for business, according to a group of UK pension schemes and long-term investors.

The aggregate deficit of the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) 7800 Index increased in July from £109.0bn to £122.7bn, according to figures released by the lifeboat fund.

Most schemes plan to offer members more help at retirement than is proposed under the government's guidance guarantee, according to research carried out by Mercer.

Proposals to change how companies account for surpluses in their pension schemes could knock £25bn off the balance sheets of Britain's biggest companies, a consultant has claimed.

Working people in the UK who are not saving enough for retirement number 11.9 million, according to research from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).