Journalists at the Carlisle News & Star and Cumberland News are considering industrial action over the closure of their final salary pension scheme.

Trustees must raise funding issues during takeover deals whether their scheme has a shortfall or not under new guidance from The Pensions Regulator.

THE PENSIONS industry will damage its reputation by failing to engage in the design of a generic financial advice system, Otto Thoresen warns.

PENSION reform will cut the number of pensioners relying solely on government guaranteed credit to around 6pc by 2050, official estimates show.

AUSTRIA - Hewitt Associates has bought Vienna-based human resources consulting company HeptaCon, expanding its Austrian HR consulting services in the process.

Insight Investment has published its first annual report on out how it integrates environmental, social and governance issues into its management and research processes.

STAMP duty on shares reduces a typical occupational pension scheme fund at retirement by up to £11,500, research shows.

THE PENSIONS Action Group has dismissed claims from trade union Community that it over-complicated an amendment to the Pensions Bill which was eventually defeated in the Commons.

THE FULL impact of self-invested personal pension regulation has yet to be felt in the UK market, Suffolk Life warns.

Only a tiny minority of people feel they could live comfortably on the basic state pension, research commissioned by Friends Provident reveals.