The IDS Pensions Service is your essential guide to the increasingly complex world of occupational pensions. The service includes a ten-times-a-year journal plus in-depth handbooks.

The Pensions Bulletin brings you the latest news on company pension schemes, and reports on research undertaken by the IDS pensions team, including:

• contribution levels to defined benefit and defined contribution schemes
• the age at which active members begin to draw their pensions
• the investment returns achieved
• the levels of the average pension income paid by individual schemes

The IDS Pensions Service also gives you three annual in-depth handbooks - Pension Scheme Design, Pensions Tax and Regulation, and Pension Trustees and Administration. You’ll also get an annual benchmarking guide.

IDS Pensions Bulletin 233

• A summary of the key workplace pension reforms concerning auto-enrolment and the National Employment Savings Trust
• Analysis of employers’ pensions contributions show that defined benefit schemes continue to take the lion’s share
• A look at the arguments for and against setting a default retirement age
• Latest pensions news from the AA, BT, Liberty International and Cable & Wireless

IDS Pensions Bulletin 232

• A look at the pension changes included in the pre-Budget report
• How trustees can improve governance by using the web
• Analysis of the NAPF Annual Survey 2009 covering both define benefit and defined contribution schemes
• A review of recent changes to public service pensions and at what the future might hold for them
• Latest pensions news from ITV, JCB, the Royal County of Berkshire and Ofgem

IDS Pensions Bulletin 231

• A checklist for employers and trustees on the changes to the tax rules and National Insurance contributions
• The 2009 survey looking at the average retirement lump sum paid 131 pension schemes during 2007/08
• Analysis of surveys carried out by the ONS and the Pensions Regulator showing the extend of defined contribution pension arrangements
• Latest pensions news from Royal Mail, Johnson Matthey, Telent and British Waterways