The European Commission (EC) has dropped plans to include solvency requirements in an overhauled pensions directive to be presented this autumn.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) must avoid penalising the largest employers when it simplifies auto-enrolment legislation, warn consultants.

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) could take ownership of UK Coal in a deal to prevent the company entering compulsory liquidation, reports The Times.

The First Quench Pension Fund has secured a £160m buy-in that will keep the 2,000-member scheme out of the Pension Protection Fund (PPF).

UK CPI inflation has fallen to 2.4% in April, a larger-than-expected drop from the 2.8% figure recorded in March.

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) is considering a review of its plan to become "broadly self-sufficient" by 2030 in light of a deteriorating economic outlook.

The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) Pension Scheme has tied up a £63m buy-in with Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC).

This week respondents air doubts about DB-lite, back calls to give TPR more powers, and are unconcerned about the regulator's use of secondees.

Two out of five contributors think none of the Department for Work and Pensions' preferred options for defined benefit-lite will find favour with employers. Among those who thought some of the ideas might be taken up, the majority thought cash balance...

Almost half of Buzz contributors thought The Pensions Regulator needed more power to guard against pension liberation fraud. But, in a week when the City of London Police announced it had broken up a major pensions liberation scam, more than two out of...