Law and Regulation

PP research finds disagreement on whether transfers to SSASs are the problem and should be barred.

Aon Hewitt, Mercer and Willis Towers Watson have joined forces in calling for measures to tackle transparency and competition issues raised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

Anthony Filbin says trustees must prepare for new responsibilities.

Western governments will never stop interfering in pensions due to affordability challenges arising from ageing populations, the former Australian pensions minister has warned.

Richard Harrington has said the government has not made up its mind on indexation after it was criticised for trying to raid pensions in its green paper.

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) is proposing a new levy rule for schemes that cease to have a substantive sponsor following a restructuring in order to protect other levy payers.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has proposed ways to improve the defined benefit (DB) system in its long-awaited consultation paper.

There could be a case to suspend indexation for schemes which are underfunded and where sponsors are in stress, the government has said.

It is a daunting task to look over the sheer volume of pensions regulation from the past two decades. Michael Klimes analyses the key developments

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has given Coats Group written assurances that action over two of its defined benefit (DB) schemes will be dropped once settlement is complete.