Reforms to boost pension coverage will only produce a "small" increase in retirement saving among lower earners, the Institute for Fiscal Studies claims.

Employees are still "alarming unengaged" with personal accounts, JLT Benefit Solutions warns.

The impact of redundancy on retirement planning must not be forgotten when dealing with the stress of losing your job, The Pensions Advisory Service warns.

The National Association of Pension Funds has written to MPs ahead of a parliamentary debate urging them to rethink proposed pension taxation changes.

The £200m Doosan Babcock Energy Pension Scheme has appointed Hymans Robertson to provide it with investment consultancy services.

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UK companies are putting aside £40bn in extra reserves to cover pension liabilities due to market uncertainty, a survey by KPMG reveals.

GLOBAL - One in ten investors is expected by its peers to default on commitments made to private equity funds in the next years, the latest survey by Coller Capital revealed.

Henkel International - the Sellotape and Pritt Stick manufacturer - has appointed BlackRock to manage €2bn (£1.7bn) of assets across five of its pension funds on a fiduciary basis.

One in five employees without alternative pension savings are likely to opt out of personal accounts, two thirds of attendees at Watson Wyatt's latest debating forum believe.