George Osborne

The Treasury has today laid out its plans for the Equitable Life Payments Scheme.

This week, Con Keating from the European Federation of Financial Analysts Societies.

The government is on track to begin paying compensation to Equitable Life victims before the end of June, financial secretary to the Treasury Mark Hoban confirms.

The Treasury should ditch plans to use GDP expectations to set public sector pension discount rates because it "fundamentally misrepresents" pension economics, leading figures say.

The Treasury should ditch plans to use GDP expectations to set public sector pension discount rates because it "fundamentally misrepresents" pension economics, leading figures say.

Agreeing hikes to local government contribution rates by June is an "extremely optimistic" timeframe, union leaders say, throwing into doubt the Treasury's summer deadline.

Pensions minister Steve Webb will unveil plans for a universal flat-rate pension to be introduced in 2015 or 2016, later today.

The planned single-tier state pension will be at least £155 if the reform is introduced by the end of the parliament in 2015/16, forecasts show.

The Budget rings an effective death knell for private sector provision, argues Michael Bow

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