Industry

The findings of the independent review into the operation of auto-enrolment will be released next week, pensions minister Steve Webb confirms.

More than 900 delegates have requested to attend this year's Professional Pensions Show - to be held on November 17-18 at ExCel in London - and many of the programme sessions now nearing capacity.

The next step for government should be to index both the annual allowance and the lifetime limit, to ensure they increase with inflation, industry experts say.

Simmons & Simmons partner Monica Ma introduces this month's legal panel

The bonfire of the quangos could have resulted in the loss of an important industry institution, The Pensions Advisory Service.

The shift to CPI indexation could cut scheme liabilities by 3% but may not result in a one-off profit windfall for firms, an accounting task force has proposed.

The government should push back scheduled scrapping of the default retirement age to allow businesses to plan for it more effectively, employer groups say.

The government announced its long-awaited plans for restricting pensions tax-relief last Thursday - replacing the complex legislation put in place by the last administration in the Finance Act 2010.

The government is greatly underestimating increased longevity and its state pension age hike is "not even treading water on the issue", Club Vita says.

The accelerated increase in state pension age announced today could result in higher private pensions if members delay scheduled retirement, Standard Life says.