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Spence & Partners has received accreditation from the Pensions Administration Standards Association (PASA).

Professional trustee firms are beginning to dominate the pensions landscape with the top 12 firms alone now appointed to 1,900 schemes with around £800bn of assets and posting business growth of 14% per annum, a report from Isio finds.

In this week's Pensions Buzz, we want to know if you think it is fair that so much pressure around ESG and climate change is being put on pension schemes.

The industry’s support for collective defined contribution (CDC) options is growing, according to research by Aon.

Trustee time and resource is being eaten up by excessive requests for scheme data from company auditors, according to the Association of Professional Pension Trustees (APPT).

There are five steps crucial for finance firms and organisations to implement in order to enhance their diversity data collection, according to EY, LGBT Great, the Diversity Project and Nicsa.

This week’s top stories included the launch of a new sole trustee firm, and the grilling of The Pension Regulator’s interim chair over conflict of interest concerns.

There is a lack of black people across senior role in financial services and there is a “strong business case” for improving diversity, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said.

The Lothian Pension Fund has appointed Ireland-based firm Cased Dimensions as its IT managed service provider.

Goddard Perry Consulting has launched an employee benefits business after a strategic review looking at how it can best service its customers in the health, group risk and pensions governance space.