The soaring cost of childcare and its increasing scarcity is preventing millions of parents from working and hitting some industries particularly hard.

The trustee of the £120m Shop Direct Group Pension Plan has chosen Towers Watson to manage its investment portfolio on a fiduciary management basis.

European Union insider dealing rules are going to change from July 2016. Linklater's Gillian Chapman looks at how this will affect how senior executives get clearance for dealings in shares, how these dealings are disclosed and the general prohibitions...

Goddard Perry has launched an additional voluntary contribution (AVC) version of its Salvus master trust in a bid to deal with regulatory challenges.

NHS England has launched a £5m initiative to improve the health and wellbeing of 1.3 million health service workers and cut the £2.4bn cost of staff absence in the service. WSB looks at the details of the move.

Here they are. The shortlists for the Professional Pensions Investment Awards (PPIA) 2015.

Giving trustees power over scheme assets

Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller - the former head of Britain's Security Service (MI5) - has been confirmed as a keynote speaker at Professional Pensions' DC conference to be held in London on 9 September.

Here they are… The judges for this year's Professional Pensions Investment Awards.

The programme for this year's Professional Pensions Defined Contribution Conference - to be held in both London and Birmingham in September - has been announced.