Providers who auto-enrol workers into "dodgy old" schemes will be named and shamed by the pensions minister.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has given an impassioned defence of the government's preferred pot follows member approach to eradicating small pots.

Six schemes have become "founding investors" in the Pension Infrastructure Platform, with soft commitment of £100m each.

Fear of missing out on yield is driving pension funds to invest in riskier assets such as high yield and asset-backed securities.

Hannah Brenton looks at the automatic US spending cuts due at the end of the year if politicians fail to reach agreement on the deficit.

The coalition needs the support of more than "two of its closest pals" to divert the impact of Solvency II, Lord Mandelson warns.

The Pensions Regulator should be given a legal duty to take employers' interests into account when assessing funding and early access should be used to encourage saving, according to a city law firm.

IBM has lost a rectification case in the High Court which will cost the computing giant £100m.

Financial Services Authority chairman Lord Turner hinted yesterday that the Bank of England should consider writing off some of the £375bn gilt holdings purchased under quantitative easing.

TPR chief executive Bill Galvin tells Hannah Brenton about the challenge of seeing the industry through auto-enrolment.