The MF Global UK Pension Fund has left Pension Protection Fund (PPF) assessment after the scheme's trustees secured a £52m buyout with Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC).

Jack Jones looks at how trustees can assess their managers

Jack Jones looks at why defined ambition needs to succeed

Jack Jones says the new Kodak scheme could still end up in the PPF

A fifth of pension schemes have reported fraud within the past two years but many schemes are failing to address the problem, according to research.

The Universities Superannuation Scheme's (USS) funding ratio was stable over the year to March, despite a significant increase in the value of its liabilities.

A new scheme for members of the Kodak Pension Plan (KPP) will be launched in April 2014 after more than three quarters of members of the current scheme backed the proposal.

This week Buzz reveals growing confidence in auto-enrolment (AE) but in the minds of respondents there is still a long way to go.

Unsurprisingly, a lot of respondents focused on low opt-out rates as the short-term measure of success for AE, and decent retirement incomes as the long-term goal. On this basis, many contributors said the first year of AE could be deemed a success.

It was a similar story on how the industry thinks The Pensions Regulator (TPR) will fare when the number of employers staging really takes off next year. The percentage of contributors who think the watchdog will be unable to cope fell from 55% 12 months...