Regulation

EUROPE - UK and Irish pension fund associations have spoken out about comments made in support of Solvency II being applied to the industry last week.

THE Financial Services Authority is set to introduce rules to force investors to disclose significant short positions in firms undertaking rights issues.

Employers looking to set up workplace personal pensions ahead of 2012 should wait until the full extent of regulation becomes clear, a law firm warns.

Disgruntled council schemes have told Whitehall chiefs that service standards have suffered due to delays to regulations for the new-look Local Government Pension Scheme.

The Pensions Regulator's draft guidance on conflicts of interest focuses too heavily on larger defined benefit schemes, the Society of Pension Consultants claims.

THE increase in the Pension Protection Fund scaling factor means levies will be more than twice as high in 2008/09 than schemes expected, Watson Wyatt analysis shows.

THE Financial Services Authority has issued proposals to stop insurance companies charging compensation for pensions and other mis-selling to the inherited estates of with-profits funds.

THE Pensions Regulator has published a guidance to help trustees better utilise the expertise advisers and service providers can bring to pension schemes.

The Pensions Regulator's extended powers could be unworkable because the government is pushing them through without debate, a lawyer warns.

The Pensions Regulators' e-learning trustee toolkit is not specific enough for smaller schemes, the Society of Pensions Consultants warns.