The combined deficit at UK schemes shrunk by 20% last month, according to figures from the Pension Protection Fund (PPF).

The Trustee of the Church Workers Pension Fund has completed a £100m buy-in with Prudential.

This week, respondents said consultants should be required to disclose sales targets.

Backing plans to introduce transparency requirements for workplace defined contribution schemes was even more of a no-brainer for Buzz contributors.

Buzz respondents were not wildly enthusiastic about the idea of The Pensions Regulator (TPR) setting more targets for scheme data.

The majority of respondents believe member-nominated trustees (MNTs) should be elected by scheme memberships rather than selected by trustee boards.

Almost three quarters of Buzz respondents want consultants with sales targets to have to disclose potential conflicts to clients.

Contributors were divided over the question of whether volatility was a good measure of risk. Four out of ten warned against conflating the two.

The Aviva Staff Pension Scheme has secured the largest longevity swap written so far, in the first UK deal to dispense with a traditional intermediary.

Engineering giant GKN has completed a £123m buy-in with Rothesay Life in its latest step towards a full scheme buyout.