Law and Regulation

A potential gap looms between employee and employer expectations of when workers will retire, an Aegon report warns.

The typical member of a large defined contribution scheme will amass a retirement pot 28% bigger than a saver in a small scheme making the same contributions, the NAPF says.

The work and pensions select committee is reopening its inquiry into the governance and best practice in workplace defined contribution pension provision.

Providers who auto-enrol workers into "dodgy old" schemes will be named and shamed by the pensions minister.

Labour pensions spokesman Gregg McClymont has called for the Office of Fair Trading to investigate pension fund charges as part of its campaign for transparency.

European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority chairman Gabriel Bernardino has called for "trust" in the creation of the Institutes for Occupational Retirement Provision directive.

The coalition needs the support of more than "two of its closest pals" to divert the impact of Solvency II, Lord Mandelson warns.

Adjusting discount rates for liabilities risks "simply picking the answer you want and ignoring the reality of the situation", The Pensions Regulator warns.

The argument behind the IORP Directive is based on "flawed logic", NAPF chairman Mark Hyde Harrison says.

The government risks damaging the UK economy by refusing to give businesses more flexibility on how they calculate scheme deficits, warns the National Association of Pension Funds.