Industry

Just Retirement's group sales hit £1bn for the first time during the year ending June 30 2010, which is a 33% year-on-year increase.

Younger women are accumulating pensions savings of just over half of that achieved by young men leaving them facing "widespread poverty" in retirement, Scottish Widows research reveals.

Fewer than one in five retired people feel it is their responsibility to leave money to their children, according to a study from Friends Provident.

The EMI Group has narrowly avoided a hearing before The Pensions Regulator's determinations panel after agreeing a £197m funding deal with the scheme trustee.

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Labour MP and former Bank of England economist Rachel Reeves has been confirmed as the new shadow pensions minister.

The government has announced it will set up a new public Royal Mail pension scheme - the liabilities of which are to be met by the taxpayer.

The Pensions Advisory Service will not be scrapped as part of the government's cost cutting plan.

The coalition was right to heed warning about the potential impact of an annual allowance as low as £30,000, trade bodies say.

This week, letters from Mark Nicoll, investment partner at LCP and trustee and investment committee chairman, David Northcroft