The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has fined a former accountant £4,987 after he failed to enrol staff into a workplace pension scheme.

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has secured the benefits of 4,000 members of the Carillion Rail Pension Scheme after it became the 1,000th scheme to transfer to the lifeboat fund.

The industry is urging the government to prioritise combatting pension scams in 2020, according to research by the Society of Pension Professionals (SPP).

Industry experts do not agree member engagement and data quality are priorities, according to research by networking site Mallowstreet.

More than half (57%) of the Society of Pension Professionals’ (SPP) membership has not made any changes to portfolios in terms of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, despite there being a “genuine interest”, research has revealed.

As the DWP’s consultation on simpler annual benefit statements closes, Holly Roach looks at the industry’s response.

There will be further master trust consolidation in 2020, according to two-thirds of 109 Pensions Buzz respondents.

The government’s ban on boycotts by public institutions may extend to the Local Government Pension Schemes (LGPS).

Pension Protection Fund (PPF) levy-payers may be leaving themselves open to “unwelcome surprises” by failing to check their accounts early on, Barnett Waddingham has warned.

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF), in partnership with Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), has published its plans for updated insolvency risk services and is consulting on its approach to insolvency risk measurement from 2021.