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The government has kept the qualifying earnings band for auto-enrolment at £10,000, resisting calls to lower the trigger to get more people saving into a pension.

People drawing retirement income from annuities will be able to sell their contracts from 6 April 2017, the government has confirmed.

Top stories online this week include the Autumn Statement, an updated code of conduct for defined contribution schemes, and a first bulk annuity deal for Scottish Widows.

There is no certainty of when taxpayers will be paid back the loan which was made to establish the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST), the Public Accounts Committee has found.

The government has proposed simplifying guaranteed annuity rate (GAR) valuations and introducing a statutory requirement for trustees to give risk warnings to members wanting to take advantage of the April freedoms.

Alice Garton explains why trustees are in danger of being taken to court to establish their obligations to consider financially material environmental risks

Almost 5.5 million people in 60,000 firms have been automatically enrolled since 2012, according to the latest government figures.

While auto-enrolment is helping more women to save, much more needs to be done to ensure equal opportunities savings, finds Rebecca Shahoud

PAC inquiry will be 'litmus test' for auto-enrolment

Almost 5.5 million people in 60,000 firms have been automatically enrolled since 2012, according to the latest government figures.