Standard Life

Companies should adopt proactive policies to keep employees in work for longer, as increasing longevity places pressure on schemes, delegates heard.

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New UK life and pensions business at Standard Life has fallen 23% for the first nine months of 2009, compared to the same period last year.

Early auto-enrolment could increase pension pots by as much as 15% and help employers, industry figures say.

David Nish has been named as Standard Life's new group chief executive and will take over the post from Sandy Crombie on January 1.

Employers are not paying sufficient attention to contract-based defined contribution scheme governance structures, Standard Life research says.

UK - Conservative Party plans to accelerate the increase in the state retirement age have been backed by senior industry figures.

People with no retirement savings could be forced to work until they are 86 if they want to achieve two-thirds of their final salary, Standard Life says.

Giovanni Legorano examines the implication of the acquisition of BGI for default DC funds

Lynn Strongin-Dodds explores what the future holds for real estate investment trusts (REITs) in light of the current economic crisis