FTSE250 IT services provider Computacenter has reached an agreement with the Communication Workers Union over scrapping the firm's dependents death in service pension benefit.

David Cameron and Nick Clegg will reaffirm their commitment to reforming the state pension in a mid-term review of the coalition's progress.

Labour will today announce a scheme to tackle unemployment by increasing tax on the pension savings of the wealthy.

Barings has appointed Nicola Hayes as head of client service and relationship development in its London team.

The proportion of defined contribution schemes which plan to reduce employer contribution levels as a response to auto-enrolment has increased over 2012, according to Aon Hewitt.

The Pensions Regulator has scheduled a consultation on regulating trust-based defined contribution schemes for this month.

Several figures within the pensions industry have been rewarded in the Queen's New Year's Honours list.

The government could ease the transition to the flat rate state pension by paying out old state second pension entitlements as one-off sums in a ‘buyout' arrangement, Barnett Waddingham says.

Almost all FTSE350 firms put all of their directors up for re-election every year thanks to increased take-up of the Stewardship Code, the Financial Reporting Council says.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has confirmed that women will be hit hardest when the auto-enrolment threshold is raised.