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RULES requiring all scheme members to complete questionnaires to ensure the lifetime allowance limit is not breached are a "bureaucratic waste of time", trustees claim.

MORE needs to be done to explain the pension system to employees, The Pensions Advisory Service says.

INDEPENDENT pensions adviser Ros Altmann is calling on the government to apologise for misleading the public over the Financial Assistance Scheme.

Trustees must have confidence in their own decision-making rather than worrying about possible intervention by The Pensions Regulator, consultants say.

WATSON Wyatt senior consultant Dave Robertson is joining rival Mercer Human Resource Consulting as a principal in its retirement business

Over-investing in commodities could be a costly mistake for schemes, Legal & General Investment Management warns.

THE GOVERNMENT'S offer to reconsider using scheme assets to pay wind-up victims' pensions may be a "red herring", members believe.

Deficit clear in 6 years

THE OCCUPATIONAL Pensions Defence Union has launched a deficit bond it claims will assist employers to minimise exposure to over funding their scheme.

THE WHITE Paper on Pension Reform sets "unrealistic targets" about what a new system of personal accounts can achieve, the Pensions Policy Institute claims.