The Pension Infrastructure Platform is set to bypass construction risk and offer both debt and equity investment portions for UK investors, plan organisers say.
Alex Salmond has urged UK pension funds to invest in Scottish infrastructure projects and back greater debt issuance powers for Scottish utility firms.
The coalition is considering delaying auto-enrolment and a delay of more than 12 months will mean the reform package is effectively over, former Chancellor Alistair Darling told reporters.
Lord Hutton admitted the Labour administration's pension reform package did not go far enough and may have "made matters worse".
Outgoing National Association of Pension Funds chairman Lindsay Tomlinson has urged schemes to demand more from the organisation and band together to lobby government more effectively.
The Financial Reporting Council wants to boost the strength of the UK Stewardship Code by monitoring the quality of communication between companies and shareholders.
The Pension Protection Fund will modify how it calculates investment and insolvency risk to ensure a "stable and more predictable" levy for schemes, its chief executive says.
Gilt markets will escape unscathed from the abolition of compulsory annuitisation due to the small impact the policy change will have on bulk and individual annuity sales, experts forecast.
UK defined contribution schemes should stop focusing on outperforming markets and start building "next generation" schemes designed around delivering retirement incomes, a Nobel prizewinning economist says.
The government is asking "the entirely wrong questions" on defined contribution regulatory arbitrage, delegates heard.