Law and Regulation

Rachel Dalton looks at an entry to the PP/Barnett Waddingham defined ambition competition from Kingfisher’s Matt Fuller

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is still examining how auto-enrolment will apply to hybrid schemes after the draft Pensions Bill failed to close a loophole.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) must avoid penalising the largest employers when it simplifies auto-enrolment legislation, warn consultants.

Trustee decisions that give rise to unintended consequences may be harder to overturn following a Supreme Court ruling, lawyers have warned.

The Pensions Regulator has promised greater clarity over how it will oversee local authority pension funds in conjunction with other watchdogs.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has set out its strategy for the next three years - confirming its focus on auto-enrolment, DB funding and finalising a regulatory plan for DC.

Police and regulatory action against pension liberation fraud is making progress, although much of the work is still taking place behind the scenes, delegates heard.

The government will consult on reforms to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) to "achieve better value for money for taxpayers", local government minister Brandon Lewis has announced.

Prime Minister David Cameron faces a backbench rebellion today over a bill that would extend marriage to same-sex couples, as opponents have tabled an amendment that would add £3bn to public sector scheme costs.

The pensions industry must prove to government that it is "part of the solution to the pensions issue and not the problem," the director of life, pensions and savings for the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has said.