Premier has launched a fixed-fee service for charities, as not-for-profit organisations struggle to fund ballooning pension deficits.

Almost two-thirds of senior sponsor employees who are trustee-facing have no reporting line into the chair of trustees, Mercer research says.

Schemes should prioritise communications and hold back on more complicated information to avoid disengagement, the PP Pensions and Benefits Communications Forum was told.

Deficits at the UK's biggest schemes rose more than 20% in January despite big gains on the stock market, according to research from Mercer.

Communication teams working on auto-enrolment must learn from the marketing industry, the PP Pensions & Benefits Communication Forum was told.

Public sector pensions will cost taxpayers an additional £9bn a year due to a ‘toxic' combination of the Public Service Pensions Bill and state pension reform, a Centre for Policy Studies paper shows.

Taha Lokhandwala looks at the options for smoothing discount rates

Diageo is to make a one-off £400m contribution to its pension scheme in order to help make good a billion pound plus deficit, its interim results have shown.

Taha Lokhandwala examines how much trustees are doing to test their own knowledge.

It's been around a year since pensions minister Steve Webb first touted the idea of defined ambition and around two months since the DWP published its (somewhat wavy) DB-lite and DC-plus options, but it's all gone a bit quiet since.