Kevin LeGrand

SPC president Kevin LeGrand calls on the industry to be positive

The government must be careful about how auto-enrolment feeds into the means-tested system, Society of Pension Consultants president Kevin LeGrand warns.

Allowing savers early access to pension cash would inject £65bn into the UK economy in the short term, the Society of Pension Consultants says.

The PP Pensions Commission was charged with formulating a range of simple, low-cost policies the new government could look to implement as soon as it came to power in a bid to improve pensions provision.

UK - In his first print interview since being confirmed as pensions minister in the coalition government, Steve Webb talks to Tom Selby about the review of auto-enrolment, GMP equalisation and introducing a new Pensions Act.

The launch of an independent commission to tackle the public sector pensions bill has been branded as an "opportunity missed" by members of a PP panel of experts.

The industry has unanimously backed George Osborne's emergency Budget promise to investigate alternatives to the introduction of pension tax relief restrictions for high earners.

Sebastian Cheek talks to newly elected Society of Pension Consultants president Kevin LeGrand about his plans for the body under his tenure

The Society of Pension Consultants will do more to promote risk sharing as a means of supporting defined benefit provision, its new president says.

Even more industry figures have backed the call for the new coalition government to form a steering group to set out the terms for a permanent pensions commission.