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The vast majority of employers are still not completely up to speed with auto-enrolment requirements with less than a year until duties begin, a poll shows.

Labour has pledged to maintain political consensus around pension reform and new pensions spokesman Gregg McClymont aims to remain in post as long as possible.

Legislation curtailing pension charges for deferred members has been announced by pensions minister Steve Webb.

Bosses have urged the government to clarify "current complexity and confusion" over the nuts and bolts of auto-enrolment.

Government should do more to open up the middle ground between defined benefit and defined contribution schemes to let "imaginative" hybrid schemes flourish, delegates heard.

The default retirement age will be scrapped tomorrow meaning employers will no longer be able to force people to stop working when they reach retirement age.

Industry confidence in the coalition government's performance on pensions has dropped and the vast majority believe red tape will increase, a Nabarro survey reveals.

The Pensions Bill will have its third reading in the House of Commons on 18 October.

The storm over changing pension indexation from the Retail Prices Index to the Consumer Prices Index has been raised on the government's new e-petition website.

UK - The Government should cap defined contribution scheme charges to match the existing limits on stakeholder pensions to avoid complaints about ‘mis-selling', the Workplace Retirement Income Commission says.