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The Church of England faces a backlash after its pensions board invested £60m with some of the world's largest hedge funds.

The consultation an impact assessment of a Europe-wide pensions regime is flawed and has been rushed through, says the National Association of Pension Funds.

Confidence in defined contribution pensions has fallen so low that the majority of workers would choose an inferior financial reward over a 10% boost to their employer contribution, says Hymans Robertson.

Only one in ten employers understands how to discharge their duties under auto-enrolment, Department for Work and Pensions research shows.

The DWP's glossary of pension terms for auto-enrolment.

LCP has teamed up with Staffcare to take its auto-enrolment and flexible benefits propositions online.

The majority of Unison executive groups launched a campaign today urging their members to vote ‘yes' in a ballot on accepting the government's proposed reforms to the Local Government Pension Scheme.

The Trades Union Congress has called on the government to ban employers from passing on scheme consultancy charges to auto-enrolled staff.

State Street Global Advisors has launched 22 leveraged swap funds as part of its liability driven investment suite.

Millions of savers will be vulnerable to conflicts of interest and a lack of oversight as they are auto-enrolled into contract-based pension schemes, FairPensions has warned.