Interest in collective defined contribution (CDC) pension schemes is growing, with 58 per cent of employers supporting a CDC option being available, a 6 percentage point increase on 2020, according to research from the Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA)

The average expected living standard in retirement provided by defined contribution (DC) savings is lower now than at the start of the year, the Aon UK DC Pension Tracker has suggested

The combined deficit of UK defined benefit (DB) pension schemes against long-term funding targets increased by around £64bn over November to £392bn, according to XPS’s DB:UK Funding Tracker

Campaigners from Divest East Sussex and XR Lewes have announced plans to hold a protest outside East Sussex County Council’s (ESCC) meeting on 7 December, over concerns that the East Sussex Pension Fund is yet to divest from fossil fuels

Research has found that 6 per cent of UK workers, equivalent to over a million people, believe that they will never retire

Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) chair, Stephen Timms, has written to Pensions Minister, Guy Opperman, and Economic Secretary to the Treasury, John Glen, seeking clarification on the government’s plans and aims for Pension Wise.

Following an evidence hearing in the WPC about protecting pension savers five years on from pension freedoms, Timms pressed the ministers to outline the government’s view on making the use of Pension Wise guidance ‘the norm’ in writing to the committee