Law and Regulation

Labour has backed a report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) that calls for tax relief on pensions to be slashed by £2bn a year.

Plans to launch a guidance qualification could be "killed dead" if the government either dumbs down its guidance guarantee or insists on offering members regulated advice warns Margaret Snowdon.

Industry leaders discuss how the government's guidance guarantee should work

Aon Hewitt’s Andy Cox talks about his concerns over the coherence of pensions policy, DB transfers and what comes next

Jonathan Stapleton has concerns over hasty reforms

The Pensions Administration Standards Association (PASA) has published a comprehensive set of guidance notes on its accreditation process for third party and in-house administration teams.

The government has set out plans for reforms to judicial pension arrangements that will also incorporate fee-paid judges following lengthy court cases.

Regulation should be changed to allow a ‘national wealth service' to be established to distribute independent retirement advice more widely, according to Ros Altmann.

Increasing the take-up of the government's at-retirement guidance will be key in keeping pension savers informed of scams and fraudsters, the chief executive of TPAS says.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) must take a pragmatic approach to the implementation of its balanced funding objective, industry figures say.