Defined Benefit

Pooling local government pensions schemes into six wealth funds will not necessarily boost infrastructure investing. Charlotte Moore looks at the issues that need to be dealt with.

Research from The Pensions Regulator (TPR) highlighted major gaps in trustee knowledge. Here are five key findings.

Half of schemes with non-professional trustees do not believe all of these trustees have knowledge levels meeting the standard in the regulator's code of practice.

Christy Jesudasan looks at whether trustees need to take an unbundled approach to fiduciary management fees.

William Bourne and Eamonn O'Connor debate the pros and cons of de-risking

Pension schemes could see liabilities surge by £62bn if interest rate rises are delayed, warns JLT Employee Benefits.

The number of schemes appealing their Pension Protection Fund (PPF) levies has dropped 70% since the lifeboat fund switching rating agencies earlier this year.

Financial Times (FT) journalists have voted to ballot for strike action in a row over plans to end its final salary scheme that the union has called a "pensions robbery".

Debenhams has agreed to pay a total of £76m into its defined benefit (DB) schemes over the next eight years following the completion of the fund's triennial valuation in June.

Lynda Whitney looks at how schemes are using alternative financing solutions to fund pension schemes.