This week's top stories included The Pensions Regulator's announcement that it would carry out spot checks on the UK's largest employers. Also, River and Mercantile revealed it had been appointed to run a £1.16bn fiduciary mandate and the Financial Conduct...

Companies with large pension schemes have already made budget allowances in advance of proposed changes to the Retail Prices Index (RPI), Willis Towers Watson (WTW) says.

Real assets are continuing to offer attractive illiquidity premia for investors. Hope William-Smith looks at the current allocation trends for boosting portfolio resilience.

The UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) says pension scheme trustees are failing to comply with their investment duties around ESG and need government intervention to get back on track.

Investment consultant Redington has launched a global analytics and scoring system to compare pension provisions across various defined benefit and defined contribution schemes.

This week's 104 Pensions Buzz respondents agreed that the regulations surrounding chair's statements are too harsh.

The Schroders Retirement Benefits Scheme (SRBS) is allocating £800m of its defined benefit (DB) assets to its in-house cashflow driven investing (CDI) building blocks.

Global investment management giants Hermes Investment Management and Federated Investors have combined to form a new responsible investment focused identity.

Every change to the operation of running a master trust requires a total rethink for its schemes. Hope William-Smith looks at how trusts are meeting this challenge.

The People’s Pension (TPP) has issued a new call on the government to reform auto-enrolment (AE) to help reduce the ethnicity gap over the long-term.