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Increased financial education and guidance in the workplace is essential if the savings gap is to be addressed, Scottish Widows says.

PP speaks to TPR chief executive Bill Galvin about the year ahead

Jonathan Stapleton on the consequences of inflation

Professional Pensions has launched a mobile website - m.professionalpensions.com - in a bid to further enhance its offering to readers.

The contracted-out W&FC Bonham & Sons Limited (1988) Retirement Fund has completed its transfer to the Financial Assistance Scheme.

Government risks accusations of a ‘mis-selling scandal' unless it matches auto-enrolment reform with a revamp of the state pension, the National Association of Pension Funds says.

Switching to consumer price index for pension inflation will improve defined benefit scheme funding levels by £83bn - but reduce the value of members' pensions, the government says.

Schemes must factor in climate change risk to their asset allocation strategies over the next two decades or face losing trillions of pounds, Mercer warns.

Standard Life self-invested personal pension and group SIPP customers can now invest directly in gold bullion.

Linking retirement age to a mortality index would remove some political risk around increasing the length of time employees work, Mercer chief retirement strategist Bruce Rigby says.