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State pension changes will work with automatic enrolment rules to ensure it actually 'pays to save' for retirement, the pensions minister has said.

Lord Hutton talks to Naomi Rainey about the future of MyCSP

Employers who have reached their staging date or are preparing to go live in the coming months may be hit by the proposed simplification of auto-enrolment rules, industry figures have warned.

The government has delayed plans to force schemes to equalise guaranteed minimum pensions until Spring 2014, pensions minister Steve Webb told lawyers last week.

Government should lift restrictions on the National Employment and Savings Trust's annual contributions and transfer terms "as a matter of urgency", the Work and Pensions Committee has said.

Hannah Brenton investigates the implications of US pension funds’ disinvestment from gun manufacturers

The Financial Services Authority and its successor bodies may not be able to prioritise pensions standards if regulation were moved to a single body, Michael O'Higgins has said.

Public sector pensions will cost taxpayers an additional £9bn a year due to a ‘toxic' combination of the Public Service Pensions Bill and state pension reform, a Centre for Policy Studies paper shows.

This month the legal panel describe their areas of focus for the year ahead and discuss pension reform, including their predictions for the pensions minister's next move.

It's been around a year since pensions minister Steve Webb first touted the idea of defined ambition and around two months since the DWP published its (somewhat wavy) DB-lite and DC-plus options, but it's all gone a bit quiet since.