A FTSE 250 company is looking to harmonise benefits and improve engagement by setting up a new group personal pension (GPP).

A recent ombudsman case has highlighted the difficulties caused by Angela Eagle’s blanket statement that all guaranteed minimum pensions should be equalised immediately.

Funding for the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) should be set by an independent commission, a major scheme chairman has warned.

The average maximum contributions FTSE 100 employers are making to defined contribution (DC) pensions is rising, according to a Towers Watson survey.

Buck Consultants has launched a corporate wrap designed to help employees better manage their finances.

Local government scheme representatives have accused peers of being "complacent" in promoting scheme sustainability.

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The Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (PADA) has given a new name to the personal accounts project.

Volkswagen UK has set a precedent for defined contribution (DC) schemes by placing half of its £70m default fund with an absolute return manager.

Channel 4’s investigative series Dispatches will broadcast an investigation into the pensions crisis on Monday at 8pm. The programme will focus on public sector pensions, final salary scheme closures and compensation packages such as those offered by the Pension Protection Fund (PPF).

A self-invested personal pension (Sipp) firm is facing immediate deregistration and wind-up over concerns that it has failed to treat its customers fairly.

The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) has effectively cut the deficit of its defined benefit pension scheme by £30m by closing to future accrual.

Support services and building contractor Interserve has become the latest defined benefit (DB) scheme to close to future accrual.

Barclays has made a series of major concessions to the 18,000 employees hit by the closure to future of accrual of its final salary scheme.

Defined contribution (DC) plans are suffering from a lack of quality governance largely owing to the burden of responsibility in managing defined benefit (DB) plans.

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Employees with income between around £100,000 and £113,000, could be better off by increasing their pension contributions in the next tax year.

The credit crunch has led to a boom in the set up of small self administered schemes (SSASs) at small to medium sized employers.

Despite a number of recent studies indicating that UK workers are disenchanted with occupational pension arrangements, Kellogg’s, the household name cereal manufacturer, can demonstrate it has successfully bucked that trend.

The Brooks Service Group pension scheme has become the 100th pension scheme to transfer into the Pension Protection Fund.

Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), is in line to receive a total pension of £25m.

The National Federation of Royal Mail & BT Pensioners (UNITE) has claimed the government should not need to part-privatise the Royal Mail.

Prime minister Gordon Brown has ordered a review of MPs pensions days after the Conservative party confirmed it would end final salary provision for new MPs.