Legislation

SPAIN - The Spanish government denied it planned to increase the number of contributory years needed to retire, but said it would continue with plans to raise the pension age by two years.

Introducing collective defined contribution schemes would not breach European law despite the government citing it as a reason to abandon risk sharing, a lawyer says.

Attendees at the PP Show 2009 were asked: What is the first piece of pensions legislation you would like to see the next government introduce?

Ruth Bamforth of Eversheds rounds up some of the year's most interesting cases involving LGPS schemes

Pensions minister Angela Eagle was forced to defended the government's anti-forestalling regulations after Robin Ellison said they will cause the tragic disintegration of occupational pensions.

In a keynote session at The PP Show, Pinsent Masons partner and former NAPF chairman Robin Ellison grilled pensions minister Angela Eagle about personal accounts, deregulation and the state of private sector provision

Trustees should focus their attention on the key equalisation issue rather than dwell on the ruling of the Foster Wheeler case, Hammonds says.

The Society of Pension Consultants has urged the next government to back auto-enrolment soon after it takes office.

UK - The conversion of the IMG Pension Plan from defined benefit to defined contribution in 1992 was unlawful, the High Court ruled yesterday.

The conversion of the IMG Pension Plan from defined benefit to defined contribution in 1992 was unlawful, the High Court ruled yesterday.