Industry

Professional Pensions news editor Jenna Towler has won the News Journalist of the Year Award at the prestigious State Street Institutional Press Awards.

Cabinet ministers' pensions remain generous while public sector workers face cuts to their benefits, Unite the union claims.

Executive pensions are "corrosive" to the UK economy and reflect a "deep malaise" at the top of British society, a landmark report says.

Trade unionists have released a cover of the Bryan Ferry classic "Let's Stick Together" in a bid to gather support for strikes against public sector pension cuts.

Local government secretary Eric Pickles has vowed to ban the practice of public sector staff retiring with large pension pots then returning to work on new deals.

Excessive trading is adding more than £3bn a year of hidden charges for UK schemes, according to research.

UK pension scheme assets under fiduciary management have reached £40bn, a study of the burgeoning industry reveals.

The Department for Work and Pensions will target the "daunted" and "unprepared" with its auto-enrolment communications strategy.

There is little evidence emp­loyers are levelling down the quality of schemes, according to research by the National Association of Pension Funds.

Payroll providers need to "get moving" on software that can deal with the complications of auto-enrolment, delegates heard.