Law and Regulation

Taxing surpluses was the measure introduced in the 1980s that most respondents wished had never happened.

Buzz respondents did not have much time for the suggestion that Scotland should have a different state retirement age to the rest of the country.

More than two thirds of Buzz respondents believe the government should set minimum standards for schemes that qualify for use as auto-enrolment vehicles.

Representatives for the Treasury and The Pensions Regulator have cast doubts on the suitability of a single workplace scheme regulator.

Industry figures have welcomed the Work and Pensions Committee's call for a single regulator for trust- and contract-based schemes.

Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the Treasury Committee, and Andrew Bailey, executive director of the new Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), have rounded on the European Union (EU) over its "shocking" implementation of Solvency II.

Economic secretary to the Treasury Sajid Javid has denied that bringing forward the end of contracting out by one year was motivated by the expected £5bn boost to the Exchequer.

The Department for Work and Pensions has whittled down its preferred structures of defined ambition schemes to three ‘DB-lite' models.

The fight against pension liberation scams would be easier if The Pensions Regulator had more power to act, TPR chairman Michael O'Higgins says.

George Osborne has said the Bank of England's new Financial Policy Committee must provide "consistent messages" so it does not risk jeopardising the economic recovery.