Regulation

EUROPE - France, Italy, Spain and Belgium have temporarily banned short-selling of financial stocks in response to sharp share price falls across Europe.

Emma Watkins of MetLife Assurance Limited explains what auto-enrolment means for employers, and how they need to prepare to ensure they and their staff are ready.

JLT Benefit Solutions has been ordered to pay compensation after it delayed a scheme transfer and the member concerned died in the interim.

The European Parliament has backed calls for the implementation of Solvency II to be delayed until 2014, a year later than planned.

The Pensions Regulator has released online interactive tools to help smaller businesses begin preparing for automatic enrolment.

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Companies could be wasting £2.1bn a year by auto-enrolling workers who will not benefit from pensions, a consultant warns.

Replacing tax relief on pensions with a matched savings scheme and setting up a "no-lose lottery" could help plug Britain's savings gap, a think tank says.

UK - MPs are set to undergo the same pensions reform as the wider public sector and have a new scheme imposed on them by 2015, it was announced yesterday.

The Pensions Ombudsman's team of legal investigators has been understaffed by a third over the last year due to government restrictions on recruitment.