The latest update from the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) for week 30 of 2020 shows a sixth successive week of recovering death rates amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The reconciliation and rectification sub-committee of the Guaranteed Minimum Pension Equalisation Working Group (GMPEWG) has published guidance on communicating with members.

The retirement of the Kames Capital brand will be completed nine months after it was announced the specialist investment management business would move to Aegon Asset Management (AAM).

Legal & General (L&G) has agreed a deal with PensionBee that will see its retirement income business provide annuities to the online pension provider’s customers.

Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) has launched a secure income assets fund for UK defined benefit (DB) pension schemes.

A total of 340,000 people withdrew £2.3bn in flexible payments from their pensions in the second quarter of 2020, according to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).

This week’s top stories included an £800m buy-in for the LV= Employee Pension Scheme, while XPS Pensions launched a concierge service for trustees.

The Diversity Project has outlined a new equality target for asset managers with the intention of halving the industry’s gender pay gap by 2030.

A three-pronged Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) inquiry to review the impact of pension freedoms has been welcomed by the industry as pension savers continue to fall victim to sophisticated scams.

Pensions scams will be the key focus in the first part of a Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) inquiry reviewing the impact of the introduction of pension freedoms five years on.