Law and Regulation

Master trust authorisation will see a significant number of schemes exit the market. Nicola Parish explains how TPR is overseeing this process.

Regulations from the government set out plans to remove protections for UK DB schemes hit by an EU employer insolvency. James Phillips explores the details.

The trustees of the Autoenrolment.co.uk and Moore Stephens master trusts have been fined for "deficient" chair's statements after failed court action against The Pensions Regulator (TPR).

PwC, KPMG, EY and Deloitte must break up their consultancy and audit businesses into distinct firms to provide greater focus on the "most challenging and objective audits", the competition watchdog has said.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set priorities for the coming year for its joint action with The Pensions Regulator (TPR), including reviewing whether pension schemes are providing sound information to consumers.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is proposing to expand the remit of independent governance committees (IGCs) to help "protect consumers from unsuitable investments".

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) has published its first three-year strategic plan in a bid to provide more thematic and transparent thinking about its longer-term thinking.

Unison and ShareAction have analysed the new investment strategy statements across the £280bn scheme. Colin Meech says some funds have done nothing to produce ESG policies.

It has been almost six years since British Airways (BA) launched legal action against the trustees of its Airways Pension Scheme (APS) for unilaterally awarding a discretionary benefit to members.

Members of the Airways Pension Scheme (APS) are set to receive boosts to their pensions after long-running litigation between the scheme's trustees and British Airways (BA) has ended.