Law and Regulation

The Pension Schemes Bill should provide for a shortened authorisation process for schemes which have achieved the Master Trust Assurance Framework (MAF), Smart Pension has said.

2016 was a big year for pensions in the courts, but the coming months already have a number of potentially game-changing cases lined up. James Phillips explores the cases to watch

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has incurred around £1.4m of external costs during its anti-avoidance investigation of the Silentnight pension scheme.

Steven Baxter believes we need a reality check when it comes to talking about the state pension age

The Pensions Regulator has spent more than £10m on external costs chasing nine employers to settle pension debts in major cases involving Lehman Brothers and BHS.

A Supreme Court ruling could result in trustees having to review the way death benefits are awarded to surviving partners of unmarried couples.

The government has announced that Ruston Smith, Jamie Jenkins and Chris Curry will chair the external advisory board for this year's review of auto-enrolment (AE).

Pension legislation and regulation need a radical overhaul in order to reduce complexity and communicate a coherent message, according to a report.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has been heavily criticised in a damning indictment of the state of UK pension regulation.

The government's proposals to clamp down on pension scams will not go far enough to stop fraudsters, according to the Pensions Management Institute's (PMI) president.