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The government has set out plans to scrap the auto-enrolment (AE) lower earnings limit and extend the programme to 18-year-olds, but not until the mid-2020s.

This week's top stories included the pension tax relief consequences of the Scottish government's decision to differ tax bands for Scottish workers compared to the rest of the UK.

William Medlicott has been appointed as a professional trustee at Capital Cranfield.

Some 88% of active defined contribution (DC) members remain in the default fund, latest Pension and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) research reveals.

Stotts Tours and its managing director Alan Stott will be ordered to pay over £30,000 for their failure to set up a pension scheme for their staff.

The £49bn, 300,000-member BT Pension Scheme (BTPS) is to bring its administration back in-house after agreeing to end its third-party contract with Accenture three years into an eight year contract.

Changes to Scottish income tax bands could see savers receiving the wrong amount of pensions tax relief, commentators have warned.

Cyber security, privacy, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI) are the greatest risks to and opportunities for investments over the next 10 years, a major study of industry views has found.

Proposed standards for professional trustees due to come into force next year will be "too easy to game" and "a silly compliance exercise" if they are not accompanied by tangible metrics, Richard Butcher has warned.

The bulk annuity market is set to beat all records next year, with new transactions reaching £30bn for the first time with the re-emergence of 'mega-deals', Aon has predicted.