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Robin Hames explains how a DWP proposal on auto- enrolment and European employees has reopened the debate on regulatory arbitrage.

The Pension Protection Fund is to clarify the way schemes should value property as a contingent asset, in the wake of an Ombudsman ruling against it.

The Royal Bank of Scotland has completed its first month of auto-enrolment in the UK - with 50% of non-members choosing to stay enrolled in the scheme.

Trustees are ill-equipped to position their schemes to exploit current and future interest-rate movements, SEI has warned.

Europeans are worried about their retirement but less than a third expect to increase their retirement age, research by ING has shown.

There are now only just over two weeks left to enter The Art of Pensions 2012, the annual competition run by electronic information service provider Pendragon.

Over 18 million workers will have passed through the auto-enrolment process by the end of 2013, latest figures from The Pensions Regulator show.

HM Revenue and Customs is releasing an online service allowing employees to track their queries about the tax on their company pension.

Pension fund growth fell below 2% in 2011 for the world's largest 300 pension funds, down from 11% a year earlier, research by Towers Watson says.

The National Association of Pension Funds has appointed Helen Forrest to its new head of policy and advocacy role.