Law and Regulation

Some 79% of people would like to see stricter rules and checks to ensure pension pots are secure, according to a survey by the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA).

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has named six schemes and their professional trustees which failed to produce compliant chair's statements.

The Work and Pensions Select Committee has urged the FCA to ban the use of contingent charging for pension transfer advice in its latest report into the British Steel Pension Scheme (BSPS).

Ensuring British Steel workers were well-equipped to make a decision on their future pension provision was "afforded insufficient priority", and the regulator now needs to review the process, the Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) has said.

Richard Butcher says we need proper debate about proposed DB solutions to avoid rushed and ill-thought-out legislation

The Pensions Ombudsman (TPO) will become the hub for all pensions dispute resolutions as it plans to subsume The Pensions Advisory Service's (TPAS) team.

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.