Defined Benefit

PP has launched an event to guide defined benefit (DB) trustees and managers ahead of the incoming pensions flexibilities at an event next year.

The biggest stories on PP this week include the winners of our first investment awards, the end of the death tax on annuities and the emergence of a market in distressed pensions debt. Here's what you might have missed.

University staff will meet senior board members of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) today to urge it to consider their ethical views and drop investments such as tobacco.

Around half of pension schemes are expected to enjoy a reduced Pension Protection Fund (PPF) levy for 2015/16 under its revised framework.

The Treasury will net an additional £1.15bn in taxes as a result of defined benefit (DB) members transferring to take advantage of incoming defined contribution (DC) freedoms.

A settlement has been reached at Jaguar Land Rover after its workforce threatened industrial action as a proposed pay offer did not meet employees' expectations.

The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has published its 40th annual member survey, charting four decades of change in workplace schemes.

PP looks at the complex set of deals that allowed TRW Automotive to shed more than £2.6bn in liabilities

Deficits of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes have worsened year on year as a result of critically low bond yields, according to JLT Employee Benefits' monthly index.

A judge has rejected attempts by former shareholders of Desmond & Sons to withhold documents from proceedings to enforce contribution notices (CNs) issued by The Pensions Regulator (TPR).