EUROPE - Regulation subjecting pension funds to international accountancy and solvency rules has been attacked as 'short sighted' by the president of the Belgian Association of Pension Funds (ABIP-BVPI).

Trustee champion Brian Holden has rejected claims that increasing regulatory pressures are making the role too complex for unpaid trustees.

Businesses could be putting their flexible benefits at risk by cutting funding for internal communication budgets, Jardine Lloyd Thompson says.

The Pensions Regulator published its draft guidance on how to calculate transfer values for members of defined benefit pension schemes today.

Administrators were forced to compensate a "missing member" of a wound-up pension scheme after losing all record of his contributions.

Trade union GMB has accepted the British Airline Pilots' Association's closure of its defined benefit pension scheme.

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The new-look Scottish Local Government Pension Scheme will be easier to implement because of lessons learned from reform to the English and Welsh scheme, managers say.

The UK government has been accused of pulling the wool over taxpayers' eyes following claims "fictitious surpluses" were used to boost government funds from two of the UK's largest pension funds.

The £5.3bn Co-operative pension scheme has reappointed BNY Mellon Asset Servicing as its sole custodian.