In the first of a series of interviews with political candidates representing their parties on pensions issues, we hear from Alex Cunningham, Labour MP for Stockton North.

Government, employers and pension schemes must lead a collaborative drive towards better financial education and diversity, experts urged, in response to a study of millennials’ financial habits.

From the blog: Perhaps it would have been helpful of Theresa May and her cabinet to give a little more thought to the progress of current legislation before taking the country to the polls.

Alongside a steadfast refusal to confirm her party’s stance on the state pension triple lock, the prime minister has now issued a pledge to strengthen the Pensions Regulator against "irresponsible" bosses.

But a string of new measures have been thrown into jeopardy by purdah and the 'wash-up' period that precedes it.

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The Department for Work and Pensions has published “urgent” regulations for struggling contracted-out schemes, in a bid to protect pensioners during deals such as the regulated apportionment arrangement of BHS.

Eight in 10 employers are failing to incentivise good levels of pension saving, according to a survey, as the pressure builds on companies to improve their benefits packages.

The UK pension scheme of consultancy and insurance business JLT Group saw its IAS 19 deficit jump during 2016, as bond yields proved a leveller for schemes of all sponsor types.

Trustees and their actuaries must consider the impact of deficits and funding negotiations on struggling defined benefit sponsors, the president of the Society of Pension Professionals has warned.

The Labour party has launched a pensioners’ pledge card, promising to extend the triple lock until 2025, compensate some of those affected by increases in women’s state pension age, and to protect the pensions of UK citizens overseas.