Trustees need 'more support and skills' to hold consultants to account

Stephanie Baxter
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The quality of trustees must improve so they can better govern and challenge their advisers, according to a panel of MPs and experts, including the shadow pensions minister.

The panel - held at the Houses of Parliament this morning - debated the future of defined benefit (DB) schemes. Panellists agreed trustee standards need to be ramped up at a time when there are ...

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