Investment

The auto-enrolment earnings trigger and the lower and upper limits for the qualifying earnings band have been confirmed.

The National Association of Pension Funds has urged government to amalgamate small pots into a number of super trusts in a bid to solve the problem of "stranded" schemes.

Small to micro employers will be given a "significant easement" of £1.7bn in the roll-out of auto-enrolment, under government plans to delay both staging and contribution rates.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has reaffirmed his intention to scope out the middle-ground between defined contribution and defined benefit provision.

The Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament has voted in favour of the Omnibus II directive - providing insurers with extra time to comply with Solvency II.

Government plans to hike the income tax threshold to £9,205 could complicate the roll-out of auto-enrolment, experts have warned.

South Yorkshire Pension Fund has launched a campaign to highlight the "frightening" amounts of money members will lose in benefits if they opt out of the scheme.

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The Pensions Regulator is set to launch an investigation into administration switching after scheme concerns over cost and data transfer issues.

Pension tax relief, tax-free lump sums and the annual allowance remained unchanged in the Budget, much to the relief of the pensions industry.