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THE Pensions Action Group has dismissed union claims it over-complicated an amendment to the Pensions Bill leading to its defeat in the Commons.

MORE than a third of workers no longer follow traditional "nine-to-five" working hours, research shows.

INVESTMENT in ethical funds by schemes and other investors has surpassed £5bn for the first time, Investment Management Association figures reveal.

Newham picks JPMAM

A CONSERVATIVE government could scrap stamp duty on shares, shadow chancellor George Osborne has announced.

Nearly two thirds (64pc) of UK workers support the idea of automatic enrolment for individuals into pension schemes, research shows.

ALMOST two thirds of independent financial advisers have reported a boom in self-invested personal pension sales since A-Day, research from Alliance Trust shows.

TRUSTEE demands that the private equity alliance bidding for Alliance Boots should inject £1bn into the firm's pension scheme have been rejected.

A THIRD of pension schemes are willing to set funding targets below "trigger" levels set out by The Pensions Regulator under the Statutory Funding Objective regime, research has found.

FUNDING increases to the Financial Assistance Scheme set out in the Pensions Bill are "so mean as to be morally indefensible," the Conservatives have said.