The Prudential has won a contract to provide an additional voluntary contribution scheme to employees of Powys County Council.

Steve Webb has been talking about "defined ambition" since January, but when the pensions minister wrote about it in the Daily Telegraph last week he pushed the idea out of the pension industry and into the public eye.

Quantitative easing has no proven effect on annuity rates, pensions minister Steve Webb claims.

The council of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries has selected Dr David Hare as its president-elect, effective from 25 June.

NHS workers who are members of Unite and civil servants represented by the Public and Commercial Services union will stage a 24 hour walk-out over plans to reform their pension schemes.

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs has revealed it will amend its salary sacrifice rules to prevent unfairly penalising employees who opt out of auto-enrolment salary sacrifice pension schemes.

Members of the Managers in Partnership union will be balloted for industrial action over the government's latest offer on National Health Service scheme reform.

Hewlett Packard loses £400m MoD scheme admin contract; Scots councils spend £127m on golden goodbyes; IDS declares war on overseas state pension fraud.

Tube workers have called a 72- hour strike over inclusion in Transport for London's pension fund and travel benefits scheme.

Fund managers have skill and those displaying certain characteristics are worth an extra 5% per year to their fund, Inalytics claims.