Law and Regulation

Pensions minister Ros Altmann talks to PBUK delegates about auto-enrolment, pension flexibilities and communicating state pension reforms.

Auto-enrolment safeguards will not prevent mis-selling on an industrial scale

The Pensions Regulator has built on its past successes despite working in an increasingly challenging environment, Natasha Browne finds

The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) is launching a kite mark for actuarial firms.

The Pensions Ombudsman (PO) has experienced a 240% increase in the number of new investigations opened in relation to suspected pension liberation.

The Financial Conduct Authority has finalised how it will monitor the performance of The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) and Citizens Advice Bureau in delivering the guidance guarantee.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has launched an investigation into exit fees, charges and the defined contribution (DC) transfer process, in a bid to improve processes.

Scrapping salary sacrifice, rumoured to be part of the 8 July Budget, would do more harm than good but is likely to be high up on the Chancellor's agenda, providers have said.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is writing to all pension providers requesting data on how customers are accessing their retirement pots in the wake of the pension ‘freedoms' rolled out in April.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is considering bringing its guidance to trustees of large schemes on communicating new retirement flexibilities into line with Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) rules.