Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) has appointed Elliot Varnell and William Coatesworth to its risk team.

The ICI Pension Fund trustees have entered into two buy-ins with Legal & General (L&G) and Prudential Retirement Income Services.

The Pensions Ombudsman (PO) has refused to order the Prudential to pay compensation after it took too long to transfer a member of its own scheme's funds to Scottish Widows.

The Norcros Security Plan trustees have hired Buck Consultants to provide actuarial services to its £400m defined benefit (DB) section.

This week, respondents were keen on financial education as an antidote to a poorly-functioning annuities market.

Slightly more Buzz contributors thought The Pensions Regulator (TPR) should have more auto-enrolment (AE) compliance resources than not.

Just under half of participants thought The Pensions Regulator (TPR) should regulate annuity brokers.

Although almost half of participants were unsure about this question, slightly more were in favour of dropping the distinction than not.

Buzz respondents were fairly evenly split on the likelihood of a bubble in US and UK equities.

Far more respondents (almost half) thought financial education was the way forward for retirees, rather than independent financial advisers (IFAs) or annuity brokers.