LCP

Schemes facing valuations over the next year will have to provide the regulator with more extensive information about their recovery plans.

Defined benefit members are being left £2-3bn out of pocket every year as trustees and advisers fail to update the terms offered on tax-free lump sums at retirement.

FTSE 250 executive pensions have fallen by 20% since 2010 as a result of changes to tax limits, according to LCP research.

The Pension Protection Fund is to clarify the way schemes should value property as a contingent asset, in the wake of an Ombudsman ruling against it.

LCP has launched an interactive modeller it says will help employers manage the requirements of auto-enrolment.

The turmoil in the eurozone is creating a "bubble" in the buy-in market, consultants warn.

Hidden charges can more than double the cost of diversified growth funds, according to an LCP survey.

LCP has teamed up with Staffcare to take its auto-enrolment and flexible benefits propositions online.

Bluechip firms have seen their pension deficits more than double over the last year despite ploughing in a combined total of £11bn to plug deficits, says LCP.

National Insurance contributions are due on pre-6 April 2006 employer payments into funded unapproved retirement benefit schemes, the Court of Appeal has ruled.