Industry

The Treasury has admitted destroying a disc which contained the details of 350,000 Equitable Life victims' names and addresses.

Scottish Life and Royal London Asset Management (RLAM) both secured year-on-year new business boosts in the first quarter of 2013, according to Royal London Group.

The Treasury has claimed that the Equitable Life payments scheme is on track to close on schedule in 2014, despite claims it has been hit by delays and mistakes.

Partnership Assurance is to float on the London Stock Exchange.

The latest views from the industry

The majority of contributors believe the government was wrong to bring forward the end of short service refunds. The move means refunds will be banned before measures to consolidate small pots are expected to be in place.

Professional Pensions correspondent Hannah Brenton has won the Pensions Journalist of the Year (B2B) accolade at the 2013 Headline Money Awards.

The Pensions Management Institute has set out its vision for the rest of the decade as the industry moves away from defined benefit, chief executive Vince Linnane says.

The question of whether pensioners should be taxed more heavily than they are at present split Buzz respondents fairly evenly.

This week respondents pinpoint where it all started to go wrong for defined benefit, share concerns over the bulk annuity market, and rubbish the suggestion Scotland should have a lower state pension age.