Despite regulators and advisers all compelling smaller companies to take early action, many may have left it too late to bag the industry's best AE providers.

Defined contribution (DC) funds aimed at more cautious investors approaching retirement are outperforming their more aggressive return-seeking counterparts, research from FTSE and PensionDCisions revealed.

The Pensions Regulator has refuted claims that any determination to resolve funding disputes at the EMI scheme would set a precedent for decisions at other beleaguered defined benefit plans.

More than half of UK employers and nearly two-thirds of individuals are in favour of auto-enrolment despite a lack of clarity on the final policy proposals, government research revealed.

A combination of state benefits and lower expectations means employees earning less than £11,500 at retirement are more likely to receive their desired level of income from their defined contribution (DC) pension plan than those on £115,000.

Investment consultants have rubbished predictions that interest rates will hit 8% by 2012, claiming the markets are too uncertain to call.

Next month marks the two-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers; an event seen as one of the most financially catastrophic for pension saving in living memory.

The coalition government has been accused of “pulling the rug from under” defined benefit (DB) pension provision by refusing to reverse raids on tax relief