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Solvency II-style capital requirements for UK pensions schemes will be put in place by the European Commission before the end of the decade, industry sources say.

The Financial Services Authority's responsibilities for group personal pensions and stakeholder pensions should transfer to The Pensions Regulator, the National Association of Pension Funds says.

UK - We ask the UK industry its views on the coalition's performance on pensions a year after it came to power.

The government must concentrate on deregulation and communications to make it easier for employers to provide good quality pensions and for people to save more, the industry says.

The coalition has made positive changes on pensions but has so far failed to enact measures to reinvigorate workplace schemes, a PP panel of experts says.

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Pushing ahead with early access proposals would have risked greater dependency on the state pension and left schemes and providers in a "bureaucratic tangle", the National Association of Pension Funds says.

David McCourt looks at the future evolution of pensions provision

The National Association of Pension Funds fears a ‘governance vacuum' in trust-based defined contribution schemes if the government scraps short service refunds.

Defined benefit schemes will be given free reign to change their accrual rates to offset the costs of scrapping the contracting-out rebate, PP has learned.