Law and Regulation

The industry believes putting members on the boards of all schemes would improve governance, but says they must be given enough time off and qualifications should be mandatory.

The government has published a 26-point fact sheet outlining the transitional arrangements for people who have been contracted-out in the past.

The Treasury took the lead on the retirement flexibilities introduced in April because they were mostly concerned with removing tax charges, Chancellor George Osborne has said.

The biggest ever overhaul of public sector pensions are expected to save the government more than £430bn by 2061/2062, according to HM Treasury.

Complaints about annuities are continuing to rise more than a year after the Chancellor announced a reform of the retirement income market, according to the latest figures from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS).

Consumer group Which? wants the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to take action to simplify drawdown charges to make pensions freedom and choice retirement income options easier to understand.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has upgraded its scorpion campaign in a bid to protect people from pension scams.

The pensions industry is overpopulated with acronyms and many in the sector would be relieved if there were fewer of them. But IGC - the independent governance committee - are three letters that cannot be ignored.

PP finds more must be done to help member-nominated trustees be better governors

Flipping tax relief would undermine the pension system, not reinforce it