Steve Webb

UK - The government is proposing to scrap the default retirement age of 65 by October next year.

The government is proposing to scrap the default retirement age of 65 by October next year, it today confirmed.

It was a good idea, but the execution was dismal.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has highlighted the need to develop a strong State pension to help people build up a decent level of retirement income. Speaking at the ABI Savings and Protection conference on 13 July the minister outlined his commitment...

The independent panel of experts tasked with assessing the viability of auto-enrolment and NEST has finished a run of seminars with stakeholders.

UK - BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, probably won't buy U.K. inflation-linked bonds at today's sale amid "confusion" about the government's planned changes to pension indexing.

Commission proposes a range of policies to improve sustainable provision, including a steering group

It is rare to have a pensions minister who has been in the job long enough to be able to understand the issues the workplace pensions industry is facing.

Majority of schemes polled claimed deferred members would be hit by move

Government plans to switch inflation-linked uplifts for final salary pension schemes from the retail prices index (RPI) to the consumer prices index (CPI) have had an instant and negative effect on the UK index-linked gilt market, Aegon Asset Management...