Ros Altmann

People drawing retirement income from annuities will be able to sell their contracts from 6 April 2017, the government has confirmed.

Professional Pensions asks industry figures - including Baroness Altmann and her predecessor Steve Webb - for predictions on the key challenges we are likely to face next year.

Baroness Altmann has said the government is handing the pension industry "millions of customers on a plate" through auto-enrolment, but warned it was not about to raise minimum contribution rates.

Problems persist with state pension tweaks

Baroness Altmann said that there was "so much misconception" around the flat-rate state pension, and admitted the changes were "mis-sold".

Top stories this week included an interview with the pensions minister, worrying gaps in trustee knowledge and the news that some LGPS funds are paying asset managers 43 times more than others.

The latest DWP campaign on auto-enrolment has drawn strong criticism from the industry but Helen Morrissey wonders if it might work.

Helen Morrissey speaks to pensions minister Baroness Ros Altmann about her focus on auto-enrolment and why some policies have been put on the backburner.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been criticised for spending more than £8.5m on a campaign to promote awareness of auto-enrolment.

A ten-foot-tall monster is warning smaller employers not to ignore auto-enrolment in an advertising campaign launched by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) today.