Law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has appointed Julia Ward as an associate to the pensions team in its London office.

Pensions solicitor Rebecca Whisker has been appointed to the business legal services division at Irwin Mitchell.

Investors have become more cautious and longer-term in their thinking in an environment of low interest rates according to research commissioned by Principal Global Investors.

A new auto-enrolment (AE) data standard will be launched at the Annual Payroll and Pensions Conference and Exhibition on 9 October.

JLT Employee Benefits has appointed Peter Mileham as operations manager for its new Customer Support Centre in Edinburgh.

Mike Weston has been appointed chief executive of the Pensions Infrastructure Platform (PIP) by the National Association of Pensions Funds (NAPF).

Martin Powis has been appointed to business development manager by AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM).

Creating a centralised database of member information will help the industry deliver effective guidance to pensioners according to B&CE chief executive Patrick Heath-Lay.

Legal & General Assurance Society (LGAS) chief executive John Pollock will retire after 35 years with the business at the next annual general meeting on 21 May 2015.

The transfer of more powers from Westminster to Holyrood would cause a divergence in pension regulation across the UK, the Pensions Administration Standards Association (PASA) has warned.