Industry

The Chancellor has made a slight reduction in his optimistic growth forecasts for the coming years, after revising 2009's severe economic contraction up from 4.7% to 5%.

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One can only imagine how long Gordon Brown would have been asleep by the time William Gladstone's Budget speech in 1853 finished.

A think-tank has urged politicians not to change legislation to enable early access to pension pots.

Pointon York has begun raising capital to break into the corporate self-invested personal pension market, it confirmed this morning.

The government claims the National Employment Savings Trust will meet the Pension Commission's ambition for a low cost scheme.

Beleaguered RBS is to pay out a pension even larger than Sir Fred Goodwin's controversial £12.3m retirement pot.

The latest National Association of Pension Funds gathering in Edinburgh found three or four hundred industry veterans in astonishingly good spirits, considering their frankly dire predicament.

The Local Authority Pension Fund Forum has called for "greater openness and accountability" in company audit reporting.

Pension transfer times have failed to improve, despite growing use of the Association of British Insurers' Options initiative.