Law and Regulation

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) spent just under £60,000 on a rebrand, including the design of a new logo and implementation of a refreshed colour scheme, Professional Pensions can reveal.

Contract-based schemes could face requirements to disclose their firms' policies on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues under Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) plans.

The government has rejected the Treasury Committee's call for fundamental and incremental changes to pensions tax relief, noting there is "no clear consensus".

In this week's Pensions Buzz, respondents warned schemes being required to offer partial transfers could lead to too many administrative burdens

The government needs to boost pension schemes' access to illiquid investments, remedy the net-pay tax relief anomaly, and focus on securing a "successful Brexit" for pensions in its upcoming Budget, says the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA)....

This week's top stories include Smart Pension and Legal & General revealing a prototype demo of their workplace retirement income product, combining drawdown and annuities.

Newspaper publisher Johnston Press is pushing on with hopes to detach itself from its defined benefit (DB) pension scheme as it launched a search for a buyer.

Four trustees of the Salvus Master Trust have been fined by The Pensions Regulator (TPR) for failing to promptly invest £1.4m of member contributions.

The government is set to review an anomaly which sees lower-paid workers in the majority of master trusts lose out on tax relief, it has confirmed.

"Defective" company audits could mean millions of savers in pensions funds are "losing out", says the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) as it launches a probe of the audit sector.