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The industry has supported Steve Webb's promotion of ‘defined aspiration' occupational pensions which encourage risk sharing, but warned the government will have to make significant legislative changes to make it work.

The pensions industry has thrown its weight behind the creation of aggregator schemes to make Steve Webb's ‘operation big fat pension pot' a success.

Gordon Pollock has joined consultant Barnett Waddingham to help develop the firm's capability to act as an expert witness in legal cases.

The government is considering scrapping indexation for defined benefit pension schemes as part of its promise to reinvigorate occupational pensions, the pensions minister confirms.

Private sector pensions have suffered from a "seismic collapse" with provision falling far short of the public sector, according to the Association of Consulting Actuaries.

Government must be ready to adapt its pension reform strategy if the introduction of auto-enrolment fails due to the state of the economy, the Association of Consulting Actuaries warns.

Association of Consulting Actuaries chairman Stuart Southall has defended valuation methods against claims they rely on "fundamentalist theory".

The DMO should issue CPI-linked gilts on shorter durations of ten to 20 years to match schemes' shorter-dated CPI-linked liabilities, two of the industry's biggest bodies say.

PP conducted an online poll asking whether the government should hold fire on proposals forcing schemes to make adjustments to benefits to compensate for the effects of unequal GMPs. Here are the results.

Many within the industry want the government to hold fire on proposals forcing schemes to make adjustments to benefits to compensate for the effects of unequal GMPs - what's your view?