Opinion

So, Lawrence Churchill is to leave the Pension Protection Fund to become the first chairman of NEST Corporation, the rather shadowy sounding body that will run the National Employment Savings Trust.

The warnings have been coming for some time.

It has been a while since I have been able to contribute a Beveridge report to PP and I have a number of decent excuses. The best one is that I have become liable for a wonderful, but completely unfunded, liability called Henry Beveridge who was born...

January 13 was St Hilary's Day and, according to folklore, is reputed to be the coldest day of the year.

Welcome to your New Year crisis! Just before Christmas, when all good folk were doing their bit to boost the UK economy with a bout of intensive retail therapy, two ratings agencies downgraded the rating of Greece's sovereign debt.

2009 seems to have been a long year in the world of pensions - and a year many will, no doubt, be glad is over.

The make up of DC default funds has been a big issue during the course of 2009. While we would like to think that, with the right education people will feel confident making investment decisions, the fact remains that many do not. As a result the vast...

Members of the small Television South West Pension Scheme have been arguing with the powers that be in the hope they would apply a little lateral thinking to its £228,000 Pension Protection levy bill problem. But to no avail.

As 2009 winds down, it's refreshing to see pension funds beginning to put risk back on the table, tentative as they may be.

The government and pensions minister Angela Eagle are adamant personal accounts will go ahead in their current form.