Treasury

HM Treasury has launched a consultation on its intention to authorise tax-transparent collective investment schemes, which could cut the withholding tax paid by UK schemes.

Realism trumps idealism in local government, according to Michael Bow

Labour pensions spokesman Gregg McClymont has warned Steve Webb lacks the "political weight" to drive through pension policy following the delay to auto-enrolment.

The Treasury is set to re-open its long dated syndicated gilt offering this month, laying out more than £8bn of government loans for direct purchase by pension funds.

Jonathan Stapleton's da Vinci experience

A US crackdown on tax-dodgers could leave British schemes with an "administrative and costly nightmare", a lawyer warns.

Unions and local government employers will meet early next week to kick off three months' of intense talks designed to produce a new Local Government Pension Scheme.

Ministers and pension scheme representatives are set to meet every fortnight over the next three months to plot a course to boost funding in UK infrastructure.

The government has begun consulting on how insurers can use gender as a risk factor after a European Court of Justice ruling said providers could not charge different premiums to men and women because of their sex.

Jonathan Stapleton calls for clear AE policy