The biggest stories on PP this week included political controversy surrounding the pensions minister, annual allowance charges and planned changes at the Pensions Ombudsman.

GMB will ballot utility workers for strike action on the 21 September in a dispute with Northumbrian Water over proposals to axe the final salary scheme.

The monetary policy committee (MPC) of the Bank of England (BoE) has voted eight to one to keep rates at 0.5%.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will find poor practice and mis-selling when it delves into the non-advised annuity sales market, according to PP readers.

Age Partnership has launched a service to gather member information for schemes exploring a medically underwritten bulk annuity deal.

Providing a pension scheme without additional support and financial education is "becoming insufficient", Scottish Widows warns.

Anna Rogers - the former Mayer Brown partner who co-founded ARC Pensions in June - hopes her new boutique pensions law firm will expand to 20 lawyers.

Better comms could ensure the £20bn spent on DB each year isn’t wasted

Towers Watson has appointed Stuart Reid as business development and sales lead for its master trust, LifeSight.

Lawmakers must clarify what is meant by advice so it can be made more widely available, industry figures have told the work and pensions select committee.