Legislation

A Supreme Court ruling permitting firms to retire workers at a fixed age has been welcomed by experts as an important clarification of mandatory retirement laws.

Members of the Pensions Action Group have renewed lobbying MPs to improve their compensation package from the Financial Assistance Scheme.

A European Parliament committee has voted to exclude pension funds from the Europe-wide financial transaction tax.

Employers could have powers to forcibly retire employees at 65, the Supreme Court has ruled, throwing into doubt the abolition of the default retirement age.

Auto-enrolment provides an opportunity to increase levels of ethical investment in UK schemes, says pensions minister Steve Webb.

The industry speaks with a rare degree of unanimity on GMP equalisation: it is unnecessary and, if carried out in the way preferred by the Department for Work and Pensions, extremely expensive.

Actuarial firms are in danger of being swept up in a government attempt to clean up the lobbying industry, the Association of Consulting Actuaries warns.

Labour will vote in the House of Commons against the government's planned freeze of age-related tax allowances.

Employers that see auto-enrolment as an opportunity to level down pension provision should be prepared for a surge in applications to join their existing schemes, a lawyer warns.

Seven industry bodies have written to Steve Webb strongly criticising the government's proposals on Guaranteed Minimum Pension equalisation and calling for equalisation guidance put forward in January to be scrapped.