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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.

The British Medical Association has lost its legal challenge on NHS widowers' pensions which could have cost the government more than £4bn.

The Labour Party has switched to using the Consumer Prices Index for uprating its own pension scheme despite repeatedly attacking the government for making the change possible.

Health secretary Andrew Lansley has privately attacked the government's plans to overhaul public sector pensions.