David Carstairs has been appointed business development director at Cartwright Group, as it looks to gain market share in the pension actuarial, consultancy and administration space.

Lincoln Pensions has appointed BDO's Richard Farr as a managing director.

The majority of people that work in pension schemes expect at least four in five defined benefit (DB) funds to meet all of their obligations in full, according to research from PP.

Schemes are looking to increase their control of asset allocation in hedge funds and move away from fund of funds structures, according to a fund manager.

Atlas is the latest master trust to be awarded the Pension Quality Mark (PQM) Ready standard.

Poor quality data will hamper the ability of schemes to deal with guaranteed minimum pension (GMP) reconciliations and increase costs, according to research from Aon Hewitt.

Two thirds of people are receiving employer contributions of less than 4% according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Royal London and Johnson Fleming are among providers which have come top in the auto-enrolment (AE) rankings for 2015 produced by the Finance & Technology Research Centre (F&TRC).

Workers at EDF Energy have backed a deal negotiated by GMB and Unison which allows new entrants access to a defined benefit (DB) pension scheme.

Pension professionals believe the industry spends too much time dealing with problems that affect a small number of high earners, according to PP research.