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The Treasury has confirmed new European rules outlawing the use of gender in underwriting will not affect policies taken out before 21 December 2012.

More than a third of workers are concerned about outliving their retirement savings, with another third worried about having to work past 65, a study finds.

The first of the Equitable Life compensation payments will be sent out today.

Employers cannot afford to ignore the global trend towards corporate wraps if they want to remain relevant to their work- force, Tor Financial managing director David Harris warns.

The recommendations of Lord Hutton may seem eminently sensible in a normal world, but the current parlous state of the public sector can hardly be regarded as normal.

Winning over 20-somethings sceptical about contributing to a pension will be the key to ensuring auto-enrolment succeeds, Steve Webb says.

Helen Morrissey asks how revisions to the IAS19 standard will challenge European schemes and employers, and examines the global implications of the changes

What the new legislation means

Royal London Asset Manage­ment has launched a cash fund targeted at pension scheme investors in a bid to carve out risk-adjusted returns from the low deposit rate environment.

Trustees are to be given new tools by the government to improve their oversight and clarify fiduciary duty in a shake up of trustee responsibilities.