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Creating a fair and just pensions system has been paramount to this government. From the outset, w...

Financial services giant Prudential has betrayed pensioners by reneging on an agreement to raise benefits in line with price inflation, the scheme's retired manager claims.

Pension overpayments by the Ministry of Defence have highlighted the unfairly lenient tax treatment of public sector schemes, a lawyer claims.

Aon Consulting has launched a specialist trustee service to provide dedicated support for covenant assessments of scheme sponsors.

Pension tax relief is set to be cut by up to 3.2 percentage points following changes in the basic rate of income tax, Hargreaves Lansdown says.

BT shares fell 5p to £252.5p yesterday after fears were raised that its £38bn pension fund would need a further cash injection following equity market falls.

SETTING up personal accounts has already cost the taxpayer £6.6m in consultancy fees, government figures reveal.

PENSION schemes suffered the largest ever single daily increase in FRS17 deficits yesterday as global stock markets plunged, consulting firms calculate.

ONLY 9pc of the UK's biggest 350 companies are complying fully with the provisions of the combined code on corporate governance, research from Grant Thornton reveals.

INCREASING pressure has resulted in "struggling" trustees seeking more help than ever before, says Hewitt Associates.