Conservatives

There continues to be "overwhelming rejection" of the BBC's pension proposal, despite a revised offer from the director general, trade unions say.

The Chancellor must abandon planned cuts to pension tax relief for high earners in the emergency Budget, the National Association of Pension Funds says.

UK - Chancellor George Osborne must abandon planned cuts to pension tax relief for high earners in the emergency Budget, the National Association of Pension Funds says.

Anne Begg has been elected as chairman of the work and pensions select committee.

The coalition's pledge to simplify the rules and regulations that have hindered occupational pensions in the past is welcome news.

Sebastian Cheek discovers an industry in favour of scrapping compulsory annuitisation at 75 but one that says the new coalition must do more to address the wider tax framework around retirement savings

George Osborne's announcement that the department for communities and local government will bear £780m in cuts will increase the scrutiny on the affordability of local government pensions, Mike Woodall warns.

Coalition government plans to investigate allowing members to dip into their personal pension pots could "signal the end of occupational pensions", Pinsent Masons warns.

After days of indecision, the final agreement forming a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government was finally agreed last Tuesday (May 10), sadly, just after last week's edition of Professional Pensions went to press.

At the beginning of March, Professional Pensions interviewed the then Liberal Democrat pensions spokesman Steve Webb about his party's key pensions policies in the build up to the general election.