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Proposals to channel pension fund assets directly into companies have received a mixed response from the industry.

Svitzer has boosted the take up of savings provision in its UK operations by 10% - after closing its defined benefit scheme and replacing it with a corporate wrap.

All of ETF Securities eligible employees have signed up to the investment provider's recently launched workplace wrap.

State pension reform plans are set to heap extra cost burdens on public sector worker contributions, hitting scheme members with a "double whammy" of additional pension tax, analysts warn.

Rachel Reeves' replacement as opposition pensions spokesperson has been announced.

Financial secretary to the Treasury Mark Hoban has rejected AJ Bell's call to increase the limits on income drawdown.

Flexible benefit platforms and corporate wraps have been touted as key ways to engage employees with their pensions.

The Trades Union Congress has branded government plans to bring forward increases to the state pension age unfair due to the widening gap in life expectancy between rich and poor.

Plunging gilt yields currently rocking scheme funding levels could accelerate the number of final salary schemes shutting down to existing members, a pension analyst predicts.

Providers, advisers and life offices have written to the Treasury pressuring it to allow simpler transfers of assets between savings vehicles.