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Royal London director of policy Steve Webb is to warn of the dangers of implementing a pensions ISA, describing it as George Osborne's "Gordon Brown moment."

This week concerns escalated over the impact of expected tax relief reforms amid revelations that reductions in recent years have already forced higher earners to leave schemes.

The different way peoples' pension contributions are calculated risks cutting low earners out of auto-enrolment (AE) according to the pensions minister.

George Osborne has undermined the long-term sustainability of pensions through freedom and choice, according to the shadow secretary of state for work and pensions.

Standard Life Investments has appointed Euan Sterling to the newly created role of head of stewardship and environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment.

Pension deficits of the FTSE 350 companies peaked at £83bn in January on the back of equity market falls but have since dropped to £66bn.

The pensions ombudsman (PO) has ordered County Tyre to backdate payments to a member after it found they were wrongly stopped.

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) is seeking a panel of specialist firms to provide administrative and actuarial services for its scheme assessment process.

Johnston Press has reduced the deficit of its defined benefit (DB) scheme by £53m following a pension study and changes to its scheme rules.

Returns from private equity investments turned negative in the third quarter last year, marking an abrupt end to a 12-quarter streak of positive returns, according to State Street.