The Pension Protection Fund has appointed chief financial officer Andy McKinnon as an executive director to its board.

Industry figure Margaret Snowdon is to join JLT Benefit Solutions as a director from next week.

BNP Paribas Clean Energy Partners is to spin-off from the group and become Glennmont Partners.

The Pensions Administration Standards Association has called upon schemes to operate their administration more like corporates.

The Western United Group Pension Scheme, one of Vestey Group's schemes, has agreed a £115m buy-in with Rothesay Life.

Community interest company Catalyst for Homes has launched a new property fund for pension schemes to invest in social and private housing.

The cost of governance is increasing as it becomes increasingly important to schemes and others in the financial services industry, research has shown.

The trustee of the Britvic Northern Ireland pension plan has appointed Buck Consultants to provide complete pension services.

Xafinity Claybrook has launched a service to provide members mobile access to their corporate pension.

So in the end the Office for National Statistics bucked expectation and decided to keep things the same. Well, apart from adding one more measure of inflation to their three already often-criticised measures.