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Employers may be inadvertently hurting their employees' financial wellbeing through the unintended consequences of some of their actions.

Employee assistance programmes (EAPs) are not a motivational tool for employees and are all about "protecting the risk of a company", says First Group reward and pensions director John Chilman.

Enabling transfers from defined benefit (DB) to defined contribution (DC) schemes post Budget opens up a "huge continuum of potential outcomes" for DB schemes according to TPR's Stephen Soper.

The Pensions Regulator's (TPR) defined benefit code of practice will be published on 10 June according to interim chief executive Stephen Soper.

Dame Anne Begg has criticised the government for launching a major overhaul of the pension system without considering the long-term effect.

The rate of UK CPI inflation rose in the year to April, the first increase in ten months, according to the Office for National Statistics.

The vast majority of older workers would be better off if they remained enrolled in their workplace pension scheme, according to analysis.

Pensions and Benefits UK is being held on Tuesday and Wednesaday at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in the heart of Westminster.

Business-to-business (B2B) gift card and voucher sales has increased by 5.56% in the first quarter of 2014, contributing to a 10.53% growth across the industry.

People managing to achieve a retirement income of £15k per year will be "comfortable", according to a report by the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST).