Legislation

Aviva has called on the government to scrap higher rate tax relief on pensions and introduce a blanket unified relief rate of 30%.

Conservative Party plans to accelerate the increase in the state retirement age have been backed by senior industry figures.

The next government should introduce an independent pensions commission to provide long-term continuity over pensions policy, a PP survey reveals.

There will be an ongoing process of automatic re-enrolment into personal accounts, pensions minister Angela Eagle says.

Personal accounts are a "scandal waiting to happen" should the government not reassess the means testing regime, Friends Provident chief executive Trevor Matthews says.

The High Court has ruled it is legal for employers to force workers to retire at the age of 65.

The Conservatives will restore the link between earnings and the level of the basic state pension should they win next year's general elections, David Cameron says.

Personal accounts will heighten the risk of future mis-selling scandals should they be implemented in their current form, a Centre for Policy Studies report warns.

The government has been urged to freeze state pensions and increase employee contributions to unfunded public sector schemes as part of a detailed plan by the TaxPayers' Alliance to cut public expenditure by £50bn.

US - Nine securities and corporate governance law firms have signed a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission supporting its proposal to ensure shareholder rights following a similar move by some US pension funds.