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The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has revealed Robert Brown of Towers Watson will chair its defined benefit (DB) council and Lesley Williams of Whitbread will chair its defined contribution (DC) council.

The average 30 year old should save £824 a month into a pension to retire comfortably at 65, a financial advice firm says.

The way alleged pension liberation schemes were operated after their inception is evidence they are not occupational pension schemes, a lawyer has argued.

Standard Life has launched an online auto enrolment (AE) process, designed to facilitate the conversion of current arrangements to qualifying workplace pension schemes.

The Pensions Management Institute (PMI) has revealed Robert Branagh, Elizabeth Harvey and Chris Parrott have been appointed as council members effective immediately.

Taha Lokhandwala looks at the £1.5bn buyout deal between EMI Group and Pension Corporation

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has revealed concerns about charging, governance and scale in workplace defined contribution (DC) schemes.

The Pensions Regular (TPR) has been asked not to publish a list of suspected pension liberators over fears it will make those running them harder to catch, Pension Administration Standards Association (PASA) chairman Margaret Snowdon says.

The Department for Education's (DfE) commitment to underwrite Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) liabilities for academies does not address the issue of high legacy liabilities, an expert warns.

A ruling that alleged pensions liberation schemes are not occupational schemes would have significant implications for members, a lawyer has argued.