Law and Regulation

Swift action to ban cold-calling has been promised by the government in a bid to stem the flow of pension savers being lured into scams.

A new law allowing co-habiting couples to register as civil partners could add billions to the liabilities of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) are to produce a joint strategy on how they will collaborate to regulate the sector over the next decade.

The trustees of the Box Clever Group Pension Scheme committed a form of "reverse moral hazard" by running the scheme on while its participating employers were in administrative receivership, ITV has claimed.

The trustees of the Box Clever Group Pension Scheme made a "perfectly reasonable and right" decision to delay triggering a Pension Protection Fund (PPF) assessment period, the Upper Tribunal has heard.

Gig economy workers could become eligible for auto-enrolment pensions as result of a consultation launched by the government in response to the Taylor Review.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has rebutted an assertion by ITV that its anti-avoidance action in relation to the Box Clever Group Pension Scheme is a breach of the human right to property.

A bus company and its managing director have been fined more than £60,000 after they admitted trying to avoid providing its employees with a workplace pension.

Four trustees of Pakistan International Airlines' Retirement and Death Benefits Plan have been fined £500 each by the regulator for failing to audit accounts on time for two years in a row.

Schroders has become the first asset manager to sign up to Clear Funds, a transaction cost assessment service launched by PTL in January 2018.