Law and Regulation

The government has added a clause to the Pensions Bill that could exempt companies from having to auto-enrol staff who would not benefit from being put into a scheme.

Pensions minister Steve Webb yesterday laid draft regulations before Parliament which will ban consultancy charging (CC) on auto-enrolment (AE) when they come into effect.

The revised edition of Corporate insolvency: employment and pension rights provides an in-depth analysis of the law relating to insolvency as it interacts with employment and pensions law.

HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is set to de-register up to 500 pension 'liberation' providers as part of a wider crackdown on the schemes.

Aviva and Hargreaves Lansdown have proposed an alternative system to pot follows member in which members' pensions do not transfer when they move jobs, but their new employers pay into their old schemes.

The financial sector is in prime position to lobby policy-makers but often misses a trick. Rachel Dalton explores

Charles Cowling says there is plenty trustees and regulators can to do counter liberation fraud

The Pensions Regulator's (TPR) code of conduct on defined contribution (DC) is scheduled to come into force in November this year.

The Court of Appeal has upheld an Upper Tribunal ruling against a group of Lehman Brothers firms fighting to be excluded from a financial support direction (FSD) issued by The Pensions Regulator (TPR).

The draft Pensions Bill does not do enough to protect consumers from obtuse and excessive charges, a Conservative MP claims.