Five stories you may have missed this week
This week's top stories include experts warning that trustees must act now on common and conditional data as the deadline approaches and calls for partial transfers DB transfers to be a right. Here are the top five.
Trustees must act now on common and conditional data as deadline looms
Experts have urged trustees to take common and conditional data more seriously ahead of the 2018 deadline for their inclusion in scheme returns.
Partial DB transfers should be a 'legal right', says report
Members should have a limited legal right to partially transfer their defined benefit (DB) scheme, according to a joint report from Royal London and LCP.
Lesley Williams to retire from Whitbread
Lesley Williams will retire from her role as Whitbread's group pensions director at the start of 2018 after 11 years in the role.
Govt urged to clarify link between SPA rise and minimum age to access freedoms
Experts have called on the government to clarify the relationship between state pension age increases and the age from when individuals can flexibly access their pension pots.
Capital Cranfield boosts trustee roster with Deloitte hire
Capital Cranfield has hired Lukshmi Selvarajah as a professional trustee.
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Two-thirds of fund managers reduce investments in companies failing on diversity and inclusion
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CMI: Fourth consecutive week of increasing excess deaths
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