Law and Regulation

All eyes are on today's Autumn statement as George Osborne makes the tough decision of how to eliminate the public deficit by 2020. PP looks at what could crop up for pensions.

Baroness Altmann has said the government is handing the pension industry "millions of customers on a plate" through auto-enrolment, but warned it was not about to raise minimum contribution rates.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published a new draft defined contribution (DC) code for consultation in a bid to raise standards of governance and administration.

Towers Watson's master trust LifeSight has attained the regulator's master trust assurance framework (MAF) accreditation just months after receiving the Pension Quality Mark (PQM) Ready assurance.

The government has proposed simplifying guaranteed annuity rate (GAR) valuations and introducing a statutory requirement for trustees to give risk warnings to members wanting to take advantage of the April freedoms.

The saga continues

ESOS assessment deadline is imminent

Alice Garton explains why trustees are in danger of being taken to court to establish their obligations to consider financially material environmental risks

The Finance Act 2015 has been published - confirming changes to pension input periods and annual allowances.

A former owner of Carrington Wire Limited (CWL) has been banned from acting as a company director after helping the firm's parent company dump its defined benefit (DB) scheme.