Long-term low interest rates are damaging pensions and will cause another financial crash, Ros Altmann warns.

The government will publish a formal response to its consultations on the Finance Bill 2011, including details on new pension annuitisation rules, on 9 December.

The FSA may extend its rules on pension selling and advice to cover group personal pensions.

Members of Ireland's largest political party Fianna Fail are threatening to resign the party whip and vote against the government if it cuts state pensions.

David Cameron faced accusations during Prime Minister's questions today from a Conservative MP over the negative effect auto-enrolment into pensions will have on small businesses.

Total life and pensions new business across Royal London increased 26% to £2.3bn in the nine months to the end of September.

UK - Pensions minister Steve Webb has admitted as many as one million additional people would be excluded from automatic enrolment should be the qualifying level of earnings be raised to £7,000.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has admitted more than one million additional people would be excluded from automatic enrolment by raising the qualifying level of earnings to £7,475.

The state pension could be lifted to a £140 per week payment with no means testing, according to new proposals.

Several people connected with Tudor Capital Management, a pension scheme administration service provider, have been arrested on suspicion of fraud, cheating the public revenue and money laundering.