Defined Benefit

The Department for Work and Pensions has launched a consultation on giving more flexibility to pension scheme members whose scheme enters the Pension Protection Fund.

The Pension Protection Fund has announced that the levy estimate will be £630m with fewer schemes having their levies capped.

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority has warned of a "worrying decrease" in the funding provisions within defined benefit schemes in the UK.

The trustee of the £1.8bn Rexam Pension Plan has appointed Towers Watson's Colin Singer as scheme actuary.

Pension Corporation has reinsured a further £400m tranche of longevity risk associated with its policy holders with Munich Re.

The exclusion of the new Fair Deal policy from the Public Sector Pensions Bill risks reopening pension disputes with public sector workers, Labour MPs warn.

Nacro, the UK's largest charity dedicated to crime reduction, has given P-Solve a fiduciary mandate for its pension scheme.

Jack Jones looks at plans revealed in the Autumn Statement to ease the burden of DB

The Co-operative has added an additional assessment criterion for auto-enrolment to address the issue of fluctuating hours.

Deficits in UK schemes remain stubbornly high as the aggregate shortfall for schemes in the PPF 7800 index rose above £250bn last month.