Legislation

Tenon's Peter O'Sullivan discusses the effect of changing legislation on SME's retirement planning

US - Marsh & McLennan chief Brian Duperreault has urged treasury secretary Henry Paulson to take action to bridge the short-term pension funding crisis through a set of proposals to help companies with defined benefit schemes.

THE department for work and pensions is considering options to relax rules which force firms winding up a pension scheme as part of a corporate restructure or demerger to fully cover liabilities.

UK - The Department for Work and Pensions is considering options to relax rules which force firms winding up a pension scheme as part of a corporate restructure or demerger to fully cover liabilities.

Janet Brown of Sacker & Partners takes a look at what what aspects of pension sharing need updating

Measures designed to ease the administrative and financial burdens on employers running pension schemes have been announced by pensions minister Rosie Winterton.

With many financial institutions in dire straits, there are a lot of unhappy investors out there. Christine Senior examines the class action cases starting to come out of the sub-prime crisis

More than half of scheme managers believe the department for work and pensions should relax the rules on returning surpluses to employers.

THE government is to propose an amendment to the Pensions Bill to allow people to buy additional National Insurance contributions in order to have a higher state pension today.

The Association of Consulting Actuaries has written to the pensions reform minister in a last ditch attempt to get conditional indexation written into the Pensions Bill.