the NEW rules could bring unexpected benefits for schemes concerned about excessive executive pay, governance watchdogs believe.

GLOBAL - Standard & Poor's will co-head a consortium to develop an index of emerging market companies based on environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) performance.

Conflicts of interest on trustee boards will be highlighted when company law reform changes take effect at the end of the year, lawyers warn.

Why not use the LGPS as a benchmark?

THE PENSION Protection Fund has much less "room to manoeuvre" if it wishes to increase the levy under new regulations laid before parliament, actuaries say.

TRUSTEES have been warned they may not be able to trust consultants' advice on scheme buyouts.

Ministers are imposing a costly administrative burden on schemes by failing to give them enough time to implement new age discrimination rules properly, bosses warn.

Schemes are urging ministers to introduce US-style withholding taxes to replace tax breaks abolished by chancellor Gordon Brown.

Pension payments for members of small self-administered schemes could be delayed because a 100-year-old method of calculating share values is used.

THE PENSIONS Regulator has launched an alumni network in a bid to improve networking links between the watchdog and the industry.