Defined Benefit

Unions have urged steel workers to accept Tata Steel UK's proposals to close the British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS) and replace it with a defined contribution (DC) plan.

It has been 10 years since the first pensioner buy-in was completed. Helen Morrissey looks at how the industry has evolved.

Andrew Palmer looks at why employer covenant is an increasingly important issue for schemes

Here's the list of all buy-ins over £100m carried out since 2007.

'Concerned' consumers could be scammed

The collective deficit of the UK's defined benefit (DB) scheme has shrunk by more than £200bn due to the inauguration of Donald Trump as US president, Hymans Robertson says.

Alex Cunningham, the shadow pensions minister, speaks to James Phillips about his new brief, auto-enrolment, and DB deficits

Con Keating says it is time for a different approach to defined benefit pensions but questions how easy this would be to achieve.

The Pension Protection Fund's (PPF) decision to appoint an administrator for British Home Stores (BHS) independent of Sir Philip Green has been "vindicated" says Frank Field.

The British Steel scheme's trustee board has turned down Edmund Truell's proposal to save the fund, calling it an unviable plan that would expose members to "unacceptable risk".