Investment

The Pensions Regulator has reminded scheme managers and trustees it will implement sanctions against "unacceptable behaviour".

The Pensions Regulator is enabling the option for DB schemes to renegotiate recovery plans to repair scheme deficits, says the regulator in its reviewed Corporate Plan 2009-2012.

A board of trustees must repay more than half a million pounds plus interest after the pensions ombudsman ruled they had breached their investment duties.

The £30bn Universities Superannuation Scheme has described proposals by the Pension Protection Fund to consider investment risk when calculating levies as "a tax on good schemes".

Trustees should approach upcoming funding negotiations with cash-strapped employers more commercially, a consultant claims.

Let's hope that the recession is as quick to disappear as it was to arrive, but however long it lingers we should plant for green shoots. It's much too late to design products and services for a recession.

Employers no longer have to consult with employees when a group personal pension provider is switched, a lawyer says.

Peter Renalls details the results of the Watson Wyatt/ Professional Pensions annual pensions survey

Rachel Alembakis reports from the fourth annual Global Pensions/Westpac Currency Management Forum held in Sydney

Large investment consultants are increasingly adopting the fiduciary model at a faster pace in the current economic situation, AllenbridgeEPIC says.