Defined Benefit

The Pensions Regulator is investigating investment holding company Guinness Peat Group over its pension scheme responsibilities.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has urged the European Commission to scrap its Solvency II-style proposals for pensions after official figures estimated they would cost UK schemes £450bn.

UK defined benefit sponsors would have to pump €527bn (£448bn) into schemes to meet funding requirements proposed by the European Commission, says the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority.

Private sector deficits increased last month for the first time this year after slower growth in equities, research from the Pension Protection Fund shows.

The Metroline London Nothern Pension Scheme and Metroline Pension Scheme have appointed SEI to act as fiduciary manager.

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The on-going volatility in defined benefit scheme funding continues as £11bn was added to FTSE350 deficits over March, research from Mercer shows.

A Northern Ireland charity created to promote peace has gone into administration because of its spiralling defined benefit liability.

The Department for Work and Pensions' proposal to allow defined benefit schemes to self-certify may be unworkable, industry figures warn.

A second round of statutory consultation has been launched on changes to the local government pension scheme.