The government will consult on excluding local councillors from the local government pension scheme in a bid to save £7m per year.

The Pensions Trust, which manages the occupational pension funds for 2,400 third sector organisations, has selected the provider to enhance its environmental, social and governance practices.

Pension Insurance Corporation founder Edmund Truell has been appointed as the chairman of the London Pensions Fund Authority.

The Department for Work and Pensions has launched a consultation on giving more flexibility to pension scheme members whose scheme enters the Pension Protection Fund.

The Pension Protection Fund has announced that the levy estimate will be £630m with fewer schemes having their levies capped.

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority has warned of a "worrying decrease" in the funding provisions within defined benefit schemes in the UK.

Half of FTSE350 firms fail to comply with the UK corporate governance code, but more companies actively seek engagement with investors on governance issues than last year, Grant Thornton says.

The trustee of the £1.8bn Rexam Pension Plan has appointed Towers Watson's Colin Singer as scheme actuary.

The exclusion of the new Fair Deal policy from the Public Sector Pensions Bill risks reopening pension disputes with public sector workers, Labour MPs warn.

The government has set the earnings threshold at which workers are auto-enrolled at £9,440 for 2013/14.