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The government must be careful about how auto-enrolment feeds into the means-tested system, Society of Pension Consultants president Kevin LeGrand warns.

LV= is calling for legislation to be drafted, allowing for transfers from defined benefit to defined contribution schemes to continue after 6 April 2012.

UK - Trustees now have a further five years to act on legal requirements under section 251 of the Pensions Act 2004, the department for work and pensions confirms.

Trustees now have a further five years to act on legal requirements under section 251 of the Pensions Act 2004, the department for work and pensions confirms.

Labour MP and former Bank of England economist Rachel Reeves has been confirmed as the new shadow pensions minister.

The Pensions Advisory Service will not be scrapped as part of the government's cost cutting plan.

Lord Hutton will pitch collective defined contribution schemes to the department for work and pensions but would not be drawn on whether the model could translate to the private market.

Sponsored Administration Panel: Mercer pensions technical manager Rosie Kwok gives the background for this month's discussion

Investment bank J.P. Morgan has started quoting prices for Consumer Prices Index swaps after the government announced it would change the indexation basis for pension increases from RPI to CPI this summer.

The Pensions Advisory Service has cut its board membership by 25% as part of a review of its operations.