Comprehensive Spending Review

The government will set up an infrastructure bank to support investment and to co-invest alongside investors including pension funds.

The Retail Prices Index (RPI) will be reformed and aligned with the housing cost-based version of the Consumer Prices Index, known as CPIH, by 2030, the Treasury has confirmed.

Plans to exempt low-paid from contribution hikes could lead to higher earners paying 10% to 12% more, delegates heard.

Using consumer prices as an inflation measure in the future could make social housing an attractive investment proposition, a fund manager says.

The Local Government Pension Scheme will become "unsustainable" following cuts outlined in last month's Comprehensive Spending Review, the GMB warns.

The government is greatly underestimating increased longevity and its state pension age hike is "not even treading water on the issue", Club Vita says.

The accelerated increase in state pension age announced today could result in higher private pensions if members delay scheduled retirement, Standard Life says.

"Never again" will state pension only increase by 75p

Public sector workers will see scheme contributions increase by an average of three percentage points under Spending Review proposals to be phased in from April 2012.

A group of top BBC journalists - including Jeremy Paxman and Huw Edwards - have written to the National Union of Journalists warning against planned strikes during the Tory party conference.