Ros Altmann

Assessing plans allowing parents to access their lump-sum early to guarantee children's mortgages

Jonathan Stapleton asks why MPs can't practice what they preach on public sector pensions

The number of people in the UK working beyond state pension age has almost doubled over the last 20 years according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics.

Every little helps. Or so goes the advertising slogan of Britain's largest supermarket, Tesco.

The Office for National Statistics has updated the basket of goods used to calculate CPI inflation - which sets increases to the state pension - to include iPads and teen fiction.

The government's use of quantitative easing has given pension funds a boost, Bank of England economist David Miles claims.

Society must abandon its historic view of retirement ages and embrace working longer but in different guises, Ros Altmann says.

In our end-of-year round-up we asked industry spokespeople to preview the year ahead in pensions.

Industry gets behind PP call to arms on decent defaults

The Department for Work and Pensions is set to spend £10m on communications to ensure auto-enrolment is a success, pensions minister Steve Webb says.