UK equity valuations are attractive in the medium term and can add alpha to pension funds, despite the recent volatility in markets, a fund manager says.

Two-thirds of employers with no pension scheme say they are unlikely to auto-enrol employees into the National Employment Savings Trust or a qualifying scheme, ACA research finds.

Inflation to cut pensioner spending power by 60%; Most workers are unaware of reforms; More people having to delay retirement; Pension schemes fight for £100m a year VAT refund

More than half of UK workers are totally unaware of sweeping pension reform coming into play next year, latest research shows.

UK - Trustees of the ITB closed pension fund have entered into a £152.7m ($248.7m) buy-in agreement with Pension Insurance Corporation covering 1,662 members.

The number of workers planning to retire between the ages of 66 and 70 has doubled to one-in-ten since last year, research shows.

Trustees of the ITB closed pension fund have entered into a £152.7m buy-in agreement with Pension Insurance Corporation covering 1,662 members.

UK - Pension schemes are being urged to ensure their fund managers have put in protective claims with HMRC for the recovery of VAT potentially "erroneously" overcharged over the last four years.

Pension schemes are being urged to ensure their fund managers have put in protective claims with HMRC for the recovery of VAT potentially "erroneously" overcharged over the last four years.

Longevity swaps leave schemes open to the risk that younger members live twice as long in retirement than current pensioner members, Punter Southall warns.