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Here are the key figures from today's announcement on the increases to employee public sector pension contributions.

Government has launched a consultation on proposed hikes to teachers, nurses and civil service pension contributions as it moves to save £1bn by April 2013.

Stephen Nichols, chief executive at The Pensions Trust talks to Helen Morrissey about why the trust has decided to include an ethical investment option as part of its Flexible Retirement Plan.

This week's letter to the editor comes from First Actuarial's Henry Tapper

Jonathan Stapleton talks crime fiction and de-risking

A maritime union has called on the government to broaden auto-enrolment legislation to include seafarers and offshore workers who are excluded from the law because they are not "ordinarily resident" in the UK.

Distrust and apathy will continue to act as a barrier against retirement savings ahead of auto-enrolment, according to research by Buck Consultants.

The union-based Visteon pension legal challenge, which accuses Ford of providing employees with misleading pensions advice, will be heard in October or November next year.

Union members at Severn Trent Water have staged a demonstration at the company's Annual General Meeting over plans to close its £1.2bn defined benefit scheme.

This week's letter to the editor is from Capita Hartshead's Paul Sturgess