In the second of her blogs on teaching in Kumasi, Catherine Love Soper shares her experience adapting Core Technical 2 for Ghanaian students.

The majority of this week's respondents thought self-sufficiency was the long-term target for most defined benefit schemes. Although many pointed out that this was a protean term, more than half said it was what schemes were aiming for.

Respondents were not certain whether the Pension Protection Fund's expectations were affecting administration standards, or whether this was such a bad thing anyway.

Buzz respondents were split down the middle as to whether accounting and other regulations were acting as a disincentive for schemes to act as long-term investors.

There was plenty of scepticism about the prospects of an investor forum driving up returns, a decent amount of indifference, and an extremely small amount of optimism.

Pensions Buzz is a weekly survey of the industry. This week respondents share concerns about The Pensions Regulator's plans for trust-based DC and discuss the long-term aims of DB schemes.

WH Smith has agreed a £13m a year recovery plan to plug the deficit of its closed defined benefit scheme over the next seven years.

Many buzz respondents were concerned that The Pensions Regulator's proposed approach to regulating trust-based defined contribution schemes could overload trustees.

UK defined benefit sponsors would have to pump €527bn (£448bn) into schemes to meet funding requirements proposed by the European Commission, says the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority.

Jack Jones looks at the Work and Pensions Select Committee’s report on plans to introduce a single tier state pension