CBI

Employers need to be given a defined line between providing information and advice on pension arrangements, a select committee hears.

Trade bodies have balked at the prospect of an increase in the Pension Protection Fund compensation cap, arguing the cost will be passed onto schemes and employers.

The Chancellor will use his Autumn Statement to launch a review into the discount rate The Pensions Regulator uses to calculate the size of deficits.

George Osborne has refused to deny whether there will be a raid on pensions tax relief for the rich in Wednesday's Autumn Statement.

The pensions industry has welcomed the government's ‘savings revolution' as auto-enrolment begins with its first staging date.

Auto-enrolment will bring more than half a million more people into workplace pensions by Christmas, according to the Department for Work and Pensions.

Hannah Brenton on the tension between TPR and DWP

The Confederation of British Industry and British Chambers of Commerce have each cut their 2012 UK GDP forecasts and called for the government to do more to prompt growth.

The government must address "artificially high deficit figures" and a potential "significant" hike in Pension Protection Fund levies, the CBI says.

Dividend tax credits should be re-instated for UK schemes investing in UK infrastructure to help kick start the economy, the Confederation of British Industry says.