The Pensions Institute warned this week that the auto-enrolment process could cause widespread mis-selling for millions.

A top Californian pension fund has announced it has voted to oust all the directors of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, including the media mogul and his sons James and Lachlan, ahead of next Tuesday's annual meeting.

Proposed changes to a key inflation measure have been thrown open to consultation amid fears that pension savers could be hit hardest.

Johnson Tiles and Triton showers maker Norcros has joined the long list of firms closing their final-salary pension scheme.

Trades unions and employees gave a cautious welcome to the new workplace pensions scheme which began yesterday. People working for firms with more than 120,000 employees are now automatically enrolled in schemes to help them save for retirement.

A landmark scheme to automatically place millions of people into workplace pensions is now under way, with many workers saving for their future for less than the cost of a weekly pint of beer.

Angry readers took us to task for over-simplifying state pension issues with many feeling let down by MPs

It is already causing controversy, says Rob Griffin

More than 300,000 retired people have seen their private pension income cut by around a third because of the Bank of England's quantitative easing programme.

Firms attacked for making huge payments to bosses while neglecting ordinary staff

Oh no, not another thing that's going up?

Nearly one in four higher rate taxpayers is failing to save into a pension scheme, according to research from the insurer Prudential. This is despite the fact that such people enjoy more favourable relief on their pensions contributions than those who pay the basic 20 per cent rate.

Women could see their pension income increase by up to 8 per cent from December after the Revenue confirmed EU gender neutrality rules will apply to the rates used to calculate the maximum amount of income a female can take each year from a capped income drawdown pension.