The ICI Pension Fund agreed a £3.6bn buy-in earlier this year. Natasha Browne hears from the chief executive about how it went

Insurers are pricing younger pensioners more competitively for buy-ins than older populations, according to LCP.

Smaller employers are at risk of failing their auto-enrolment (AE) obligations as a fifth are unaware of their staging date, The Pensions Regulator (TPR) warns.

There has been a steady decline in the proportion of FTSE 100 companies offering defined contribution (DC) trust-based schemes, according to Towers Watson.

Employers are being warned that they could lose critical staff to early retirement if they do not help them prepare for the reduced pension saving allowances.

Mercer has teamed up with eShare to launch an online governance service to meet demand from pension scheme trustees making the switch from paper to digital.

The expense of signposting members to the guidance guarantee could be over £100,000 a year for the largest schemes, the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has warned.

Legal and General Investment Management (LGIM) has launched a multi-asset flexible drawdown product in a bid to help fill the void created by the Budget freedoms.

Labour should reverse the pension freedoms announced in the Budget 2014 if it wins the general election in May, a leftist think-tank has said.

Trustees running schemes in England and Scotland no longer need to be concerned about EU cross-border requirements after the results of yesterday's referendum.