Unite is balloting more than 5,000 Ford workers over strike action in a row over job security and pensions.

This week we want your views on women in pensions. Are women adequately represented on trustee boards? Does this matter? Are quotas the answer?

UK GDP rose by 0.7% in Q4, according to an initial estimate from the Office for National Statistics, with growth for the year as a whole rising at its fastest rate since 2007.

Canada's Bank of Montreal (BMO) has agreed a deal to buy F&C for £708m in cash.

The High Court has ruled that companies cannot challenge Pension Protection Fund (PPF) levies based on failure scores calculated using out-of-date information.

The trustees of an unnamed construction firm's scheme have agreed a medically underwritten buy-in with Partnership Assurance to cover £33m of liabilities associated with the fund's pensioner members.

This week Buzz respondents showed little enthusiasm for a regulatory review.

Nine out of 10 respondents said public sector schemes would still be with us in a decade, although the majority of those thought they would be significantly changed.

Buzz respondents were not generally against underfunded schemes pursuing liability driven investment (LDI) strategies.

There was only limited appetite from Buzz contributors for a government review of pensions regulation before 2015.