occupational pensions

Acquisition will add £12bn assets

Report calls for stability and simplicity

The Smith Commission has proposed the Scottish Parliament should get more powers over tax. Jonathan Stapleton discovers what this means for pensions and how schemes and employers can define who is a Scottish taxpayer.

Tax relief on pensions should be replaced by a Treasury contribution of 50p per £1 saved, argues a radical report by Michael Johnson for influential thinktank the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS).

Pension charges for workplace schemes will be subject to a 0.75% cap under government plans confirmed today.

Standard Life has opened up its retirement product range to customers with a smaller pot of pensions savings, a day after the Chancellor's pension reforms triggered a sell-off among life insurers.

Clients saving more for retirement will cause global assets under management to soar by 2020, PwC has predicted.

Four men have been banned from working in financial services over their ‘disgraceful' behaviour in relation to occupation pensions which saw them net £4m in unnecessary commission.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has issued its first notice to an employer which has failed to meet its auto-enrolment (AE) duties.