Law and Regulation

Rachel Dalton talks to Bill Galvin as he steps down after five years at The Pensions Regulator (TPR)

Employers are downgrading their pensions offering on the back of auto-enrolment (AE) in order to "hoodwink" employees into thinking it is part of the legislation, lawyers claim.

Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) chairman John Griffith-Jones has warned insurers to learn the lessons of the banking crisis and work harder to regain consumers' trust.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is preparing for a high-profile court case against an alleged liberation fraud operation in the hope it will secure a clear ruling that the practice is illegal.

Pensions minister Steve Webb is to use the Pensions Bill to change the structure of benefits given to people who delay taking the state pension.

More than a third of children born in 2013 are expected to live to the ripe age of 100, according to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).

Preparing for and regulating auto-enrolment (AE) has cost The Pensions Regulator £19.7m, its 2012-13 accounts reveal.

The Green Party has tabled an amendment to the Pensions Bill that would grant civil partners the same right as married couples to survivors' pensions.

Just under half of respondents supported the idea of more schemes being allowed to run on after a sponsor enters insolvency. A quarter of contributors rejected the suggestion.

Henry Tapper says the government must stop passing the buck for combatting fraud to trustees