Former JLT Employee Benefits (JLT EB) head of investment consulting Peter Ball has joined Kames Capital to lead its institutional business on an interim basis.

Barclays Corporate and Employer Solutions (C&ES) has hired Now Pensions' Niall Ferguson to join its expanding business development team.

Why the latest Scottish Widows Retirement Report makes good reading for politicians

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has used its latest annual funding statement to urge trustees facing difficult negotiations make greater use of flexibilities in the funding regime.

The Pensions Regulator has urged trustees and employers to "work in a collaborative and transparent way" on scheme funding in its latest defined benefit code of practice.

The nine key points from the regulator's new code of practice

The Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA) has backed the government's plans to give defined contribution (DC) savers more flexibility and urged it not to ban transfers from defined benefit (DB) schemes.

Members of the Visteon pension fund have accepted a £28m settlement with former employer Ford over losses suffered when the scheme entered the Pension Protection Fund (PPF).

A FTSE100 firm has become the first company to use a surety bond as part of its scheme funding strategy after securing a £400m transaction, says Aon Hewitt.

The Total UK Pension Plan has insured £1.6bn of pensioner liabilities with Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) in the second largest UK bulk annuity transaction to date.