Pressure for reform of public sector pensions has increased after an independent report concluded workers receive better pay, hours and pensions than their private sector counterparts.

Legacy Labour proposals for auto-enrolment and NEST will be stripped bare to determine potential cost savings, Lord Freud says.

EUROPE - A European Commission Green Paper - due for release next week - is set to reopen the issue of solvency standards in pension schemes.

A European Commission Green Paper - due for release next week - is set to reopen the issue of solvency standards in pension schemes.

Outgoing Association of British Insurers chairman Archie Kane has fired a parting shot at the "lamentable lack of clarity and consistency" of government in tackling the savings gap.

A small engineering firm racked with bank debts and a £10m buyout shortfall was saved from insolvency after trustees agreed a complex debt-for-equity swap, PP has learned.

The coalition government should shift the burden of public sector pension contributions from the state to employees in the June 22 emergency budget, an independent policy think-tank says.

Almost every defined benefit plan in the UK has plans to reduce or axe current provisions in the future, a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey reveals.

UK - Almost every defined benefit plan in the UK has plans to reduce or axe current provisions in the future, a PricewaterhouseCoopers survey revealed.

Government is under pressure to tighten regulations governing disclosure of environmental, social and governance risks in pension scheme investments in the wake of the BP oil spill disaster.