Defined Benefit

The Co-operative Group is set to offer its career average PACE scheme to all workers following a widespread review of its retirement benefits ahead of auto-enrolment.

The latest Hyman's Robertson FTSE 350 accounting survey reveals firms are using an increasingly wide range of discount rates and inflation assumptions to calculate liabilities. Here are the key findings in full.

Here it is. The a handy table to compare the current (2008) LGPS with the newly agreed 2014 scheme.

The National Association of Pension Funds has urged government to amalgamate small pots into a number of super trusts in a bid to solve the problem of "stranded" schemes.

How will the latest funding reviews affect schemes and sponsors

National Express's defined benefit coach pension plan has moved into surplus after closing its scheme to future accrual.

Here it is. A table showing how private sector membership in occupational pension schemes has fallen over the past 15 years.

The trustee board of the Unilever UK Pension Fund has agreed not to block changes to the scheme proposed by Unilever, its sponsoring employer, despite a wave of national strikes over the firm's move to cease final salary accrual.

The trustees of the Polestar Pension Scheme are set to wind up the fund after The Pensions Regulator advised continuation would not be in the interest of members.

Professional Pensions is set to publish its annual Guide to Consultants at the end of this month.