Legislation

The Treasury has recommended that banks with group-wide pension funds should split them into separate schemes for each arm of their businesses.

Tax avoidance campaigners have been granted permission by the High Court to challenge a deal between HM Revenue Customs and investment bank Goldman Sachs.

Rachel Dalton questions the push to lift the contribution cap for NEST

Schemes could find themselves "frozen out" of the Pension Protection Fund if their sponsoring employer is based overseas and fails certain tests, a lawyer warns.

The government has launched draft legislation for consultation on a new general anti-abuse rule that aims to tackle artificial and abusive tax avoidance schemes.

The government has made no significant amendments to legislation exempting ‘dual status' workers who are subject to labour laws in both the UK and another European country from the auto-enrolment process.

France's new Socialist government, led by President Francois Hollande, will today present a decree that will lower the state pension age for people who started work early in life.

Employers and unions have announced the details of a new local government pension scheme which will take effect from 1 April 2014. The scheme will have seven major features.

A widow who was forced to give up her tennis club membership after receiving a lower pension than she was entitled to has been awarded £1,500 in compensation.

Auto-enrolment will not be enough to close the pension savings gap and compulsory pension saving "should have started decades ago", a City of London chief warned.