UK - The state pension age will reach 66 by 2020, as part of the Spending Review.

The £1.5bn that the government has put on the table to settle the long-running Equitable Life saga is a good deal.

The Association of Member Nominated Trustees has launched a website to allow potential members and friends to register to join the group.

Younger women are accumulating pensions savings of just over half of that achieved by young men leaving them facing "widespread poverty" in retirement, Scottish Widows research reveals.

Timberland Investment Resources, a US-based forestry investment firm, has established a European business to provide UK schemes access to its asset strategies.

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UK - The annual allowance will be cut from £255,000 ($408,000) to £50,000; the lifetime allowance reduced from £1.8m to £1.5m, and the factor for valuing final salary benefits increased from 10 to 16, the Treasury has announced.

Here they are. The list of the key changes in the pensions tax regime following today's announcement.

The Treasury has confirmed it will cut the annual allowance from £255,000 to £50,000; cut the lifetime limit from £1.8m to £1.5m; and increase the factor for valuing final salary benefits from 10 to 16. But how do you calculate any tax charge. Our step-by-step...

UK - The Treasury confirmed the annual allowance will be cut from £255,000 to £50,000 and the lifetime allowance reduced from £1.8m to £1.5m.