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The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) must avoid penalising the largest employers when it simplifies auto-enrolment legislation, warn consultants.

Compulsory limited price indexation (LPI) for defined benefit pensions in payment should be scrapped by 2016, says the Association of Consulting Actuaries.

Jack Jones looks at responses to proposals to add to the regulator’s statutory objectives

The Financial Services Authority's probe into the annuity market is long overdue and could be a welcome addition to the drive to ‘reinvigorate workplace pensions'.

Most small companies do not believe fewer, larger pension schemes will result in better value for money for savers, says the Association of Consulting Actuaries.

DC members at smaller employers cannot expect adequate retirement incomes after an "alarming" stagnation of contributions according to research from the Association of Consulting Actuaries.

Risk-sharing schemes are more suitable for MPs than for other public sector employees, says the Association of Consulting Actuaries.

The pensions industry has welcomed the Department for Work and Pensions report ‘Reinvigorating workplace pensions', but highlighted that more work must be done.

The Pension Protection Fund must provide more information on how it assesses contingent assets such as guarantees when making levy calculations, says the Association of Consulting Actuaries.

Employers expect increases in the typical retirement age to outpace the rise in the state pension age, according to research from the Association of Consulting Actuaries.