Punter Southall Group has launched a new workplace pensions and savings business as part of its wider growth strategy.

As falling yields lower funding levels, PP finds DB schemes are in a predicament.

The top stories this week were the pensions regulator warning about new master trusts and revealing a big board shake-up, while the LGPS pooling picture became clearer.

Pension schemes paying higher actuarial fees are not getting better value for money from their providers, according to KGC's sixth actuarial fee and services survey.

Local government pension funds for South Yorkshire and Tyne & Wear have joined a collaboration group led by Cumbria, East Riding and Surrey to pool investments.

The Pensions Regulator has warned there are real risks from new master trusts being subject to far less regulatory scrutiny than new contract-based providers.

FOMC takes more dovish tone

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has set out plans to impose a regulatory ban on member-borne commissions on service providers, dismissing concerns the responsibility could fall entirely on trustees.

The results of the first European-wide stress tests reveal the current macro-economic environment poses huge challenges for defined benefit (DB) schemes as they grapple with low rates and longevity increases.

A group of local authorities have joined forces under a major project to tell the government how the local government pension scheme (LGPS) should be pooled.