Removing investment restrictions on protected rights in self-invested personal pensions would create a level playing field for providers and clients, Hazell Carr says.
The government has gold-plated the existing defined benefit generation at the expense of better provision for all, delegates heard.
One over-riding tenet of government is that it always believes it can do everything so much better than anyone else.
Changes to employer debt regulations have done little to achieve deregulation of the "overburdened" pensions industry, consultants say.
HSBC Securities Services and Computershare have launched a service to make sure shareholder votes are recorded accurately.
Hundreds of retired Gurkhas have demonstrated in Westminster to demand pension equality with British soldiers.
The government's decision to cap public sector pay below inflation could trigger industrial action across the civil service, union officials warn.
The panel CHAIRMAN: Monica Ma, partner, Simmons & Simmons Ma is a partner in the pensions depart...
Pensions Investments Research Consultants is set to launch a governance rating service to offer a risk based analysis of corporate responsibility issues.
FRANCE - The Fonds de Réserve pour les Retraites (FRR) has awarded US small cap equity mandates, worth a combined €500m ($790.5m) over five years, to BlackRock and Allianz Global Investors.