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A government-backed scheme designed to raise the profile of employer-based training has been launched.

The Personal Accounts Delivery Authority is planning to consult on scheme rules, fund structures and investment choice, delegates heard.

Scheme managers are split over whether plans by The Pensions Regulator to include mortality assumptions as a funding trigger are a good idea.

US companies that switched from defined benefit to defined contribution pension plans are gradually increasing contribution rates, Watson Wyatt says.

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.