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Complex rules which prevented protected rights benefits being transferred into a self-invested personal pension are being scrapped.

Employers with existing schemes will need help when personal accounts are introduced, the National Association of Pension Funds warns.

THE ASSOCIATION of British Insurers has unveiled plans to overhaul its life and pension fund sector definitions.

SMOKERS have benefited most from the steady rise in annuity rates over the past six months, new figures show.

Ministers are under pressure to explain why the new National Insurance contracting-out rebate is lower than the one recommended by the Government Actuary's Department.

THE department for work and pensions has spent £66,000 fighting the Pensions Action Group's legal actions over compensation for scheme wind-up victims.

Equal pay laws need updating because women can lose out when public services are contracted-out to private firms, the Equal Opportunities Commission claims.

MILLIONS of people of low incomes - including many women - could gain little from saving into personal accounts as mean tested benefits would be slashed, the Equal Opportunities Commission warns.

THE BOARD for Actuarial Standards should develop a generic communication standard for actuaries, Compact Analysis urges.

EMPLOYERS organisation, the EEF, has officially laid out its costed proposals for providing smaller firms with financial help when personal accounts are rolled out across the country.