When talking about what caused the death of defined benefit pensions, the usual suspects always pop up. Soaring liabilities are generally considered to have dealt the fatal blow, but didn't act alone; at the very least, red tape acted as look out.
In the age of instant communications and wide-spread personal publishing, campaigns are easy to start. If you want to shout about something, a couple of tweets or a blog can get the message out there fast.
Every quarter, PP takes the industry's temperature on government performance in pensions in the previous six months, asking whether it has improved, stayed the same or got worse. Every quarter so far revealed the same poor result.
John Redwood looks into the problem of filling bigger deficits in the face of potential increases in inflation.
Ads Van Tiggelen says the bonds story is not over yet
Proposal to pay legacy S2P as lump sum gets cautious thumbs up