Regulation

The department for work and pensions has conducted a third informal consultation on possible changes to occupational pension rules.

Trustees must take a hard line approach to securing assets for the pension scheme should a sponsor go bust, a lawyer says.

A Society of Pension Consultants idea which could see employers reducing contributions with The Pensions Regulator's permission may be out of the body's remit, HamishWilson says.

The option for trustees to commute small "stranded pension pots" of less than £2000 has been put on hold until the middle of 2009.

THE Financial Reporting Council has urged trustees to be more vigilant over the actuarial assumptions they use.

INCREASED deficits are set to complicate scheme specific funding liability negotiations, Hewitt Associates warns.

THE Pension Protection Fund has issued important guidance about the information that eligible schemes need to provide to ensure their levies can be calculated correctly.

THE department for work and pensions has postponed the start date for the lower 2.5pc per annum cap on revaluation requirements for deferred benefits.

More than 200 hundred insolvency practitioners have been reported to their professional bodies for failing to advise the Pension Protection Fund and The Pensions Regulator.

Trustees need to be poised and ready to deal with the pensions implications of an increase in redundancies due to economic downturn, lawyers warn.