Legislation

A European Commission white paper on how to tackle major challenges facing pensions across Europe includes a commitment to revise the IORP directive and Solvency II requirements.

Insolvent employers' pension debts could balloon under a landmark legal case on the use of annuity rates to calculate section 75 liabilities, a lawyer says.

A government committee has trashed the use of corporate bond yields to calculate public sector pension liabilities due to the "continuing instability" of annual discount rates.

Some third sector organisations remain unprepared for auto-enrolment, with one in seven totally unaware of their responsibilities towards staff, a poll shows.

Solvency II will force all remaining defined benefit schemes to close and could lead to significant job losses as UK companies fold, lobby groups warn.

Prime Minister David Cameron has warned of a pensions "apartheid" between the public and private sector if reforms are not pushed through for public sector workers.

Schemes face continuing uncertainty over the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, despite the publication of further regulations.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has called for a middle-ground "defined aspiration" pension.

Up to 2 million women could miss out on being auto-enrolled if the government moves to peg the auto-enrolment trigger to the income tax threshold, the TUC warns.

The union-led appeals against the government's indexation switch will go ahead later this month and coincide with a protest against the changes outside the court.