Sebastian Cheek speaks to Volkswagen Group pensions manager Roy Platten at this year's PP Show about how the scheme's communications strategy helped it acquire the NAPF Pension Quality Mark

Transferring defined contribution benefits into a buyout policy can potentially reduce the value of scheme assets by millions of pounds, Xafinity warns.

The aggregate funding position of the 7400 defined benefit funds monitored by the Pension Protection Fund improved to a deficit of £92.5bn in November.

Public sector pension funds across the world should be used for "social and environmental good" rather than be squandered by high-paid financiers on market speculation, a trade union says.

The Labour party's proposal to phase in employers' contributions to personal accounts until 2016 "undermines" the whole project, the Conservatives say.

ITN has closed its defined benefit scheme to future accrual.

Three pension schemes have been honoured by the Pensions Research Accountants Group for the quality of their summary reports to members.

Richard Reid has stood down from his role as chief executive following JLT Group's purchase of HSBC Actuaries and Consultants.

The majority of pension funds want to see the government issue more long-dated and index-linked gilts, the National Association of Pensions Funds' Annual Survey shows.

Trustees should focus their attention on the key equalisation issue rather than dwell on the ruling of the Foster Wheeler case, Hammonds says.