Pinsent Masons

Government calculations on public sector pension savings have been labelled "fundamentally unsound" after independent analysis revealed increasing retirement ages failed to cut taxpayer costs.

The groups that failed in a judicial review of the government's indexation switch intend to appeal the decision - a move which will lead to further uncertainty for schemes.

Regulation is pushing trustees into bad investment decisions and causing confrontations with employers, delegates heard.

Government has ruled out new changes to collective defined contribution scheme regulations after criticism legal restrictions will kill off the sector.

Payroll providers need to "get moving" on software that can deal with the complications of auto-enrolment, delegates heard.

A war of words has broken between chief secretary of the Treasury Danny Alexander and unions after the revised public sector pensions offer.

The tone of industry regulators is "aggressive and confrontational" rather than being collegiate with the industry, a lawyer says.

A £650m government loan facility for the National Employment Savings Trust will be "unrecoverable" as the agreement allows the terms of the loan to be renegotiated, a lawyer says.

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Public sector unions are gearing up for a national strike on 30 June to protest against pension changes proposed by Lord Hutton.