The £13m Ring pension scheme has entered the Pension Protection Fund, after trustees and advisers whittled down a list of over 40 companies to just four sponsors and triggered their insolvency.
Scheme sponsors are facing growing pressure to make higher contributions at the same time as their ability to support defined benefit obligations remains depressed, warns PwC.
Companies could establish defined benefit schemes which are not indexed by inflation, under government proposals.
Jack Jones takes a look at the future of ETVs and PIEs
The Daily Mail and General Trust is to use proceeds from the £50m sale of its local newspaper business to plug its pension deficit.
The charity People Can has appointed PwC as its administrator as a substantial increase in its pension deficit contributions became unsustainable.
Tube workers will strike for 24 hours from 6AM on 23 November over a long-running pensions and benefits dispute.
The use of liability driven investment strategies as a tool to move schemes towards buy-outs has fallen over the past year, SEI says.
The Financial Reporting Council has brought actuarial work on pension incentive exercises into the scope of its technical actuarial standards.
John Gray warns that LGPS mergers must be in the interests of members