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The default retirement age of 65 will be "quickly" phased out following a government consultation, the Budget reveals.

The industry has unanimously backed George Osborne's emergency Budget promise to investigate alternatives to the introduction of pension tax relief restrictions for high earners.

Almost every defined benefit plan in the UK has plans to reduce or axe current provisions in the future, a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey reveals.

UK - Almost every defined benefit plan in the UK has plans to reduce or axe current provisions in the future, a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey revealed.

Seven-out-of-10 employers believe reducing pensions tax relief for higher earners will jeopardise pensions for the wider UK workforce, PricewaterhouseCoopers says.

The Association of Consulting Actuaries has confirmed Stuart Southall will replace Keith Barton as the trade body's chairman.

PricewaterhouseCoopers has become the latest firm to raise fears over proposed pension accounting changes.

UK - PricewaterhouseCoopers has become the latest firm to raise fears over proposed pension accounting changes.

The number of schemes using non-cash assets to pay off deficits will outstrip buyouts over the next five years, Deloitte claims.

Six years ago the UK government began to introduce a series of initiatives aimed at protecting and simplifying pensions, but have they succeeded? Gill Wadsworth reports