Law and Regulation

Jane Marshall says trustees now have a clear and persuasive guide to socially responsible investing

The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) says it will continue to work closely with the Investment Management Association (IMA) following the disbandment of the Institutional Investor Committee (IIC).

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has given the trustees and sponsors of the Brunel and Staveley pension schemes an extra three months to respond to a warning notice issued last year.

A new measure of inflation developed by the Office of National Statistics has had its official status downgraded a little over a year after it was first proposed.

Welsh Assembly members (AMs) have set up a cross-party group to campaign for increased compensation for former Allied Steel and Wire (ASW) workers who lost pensions when the firm collapsed.

International accounting standards for listed companies are riven by faultlines that are damaging for business, according to a group of UK pension schemes and long-term investors.

Pension schemes could be forced to pay a levy if proposals are adopted to radically change the funding of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA).

Most schemes plan to offer members more help at retirement than is proposed under the government's guidance guarantee, according to research carried out by Mercer.

Proposals to change how companies account for surpluses in their pension schemes could knock £25bn off the balance sheets of Britain's biggest companies, a consultant has claimed.

Working people in the UK who are not saving enough for retirement number 11.9 million, according to research from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).