Barnett Waddingham

A panel of pension experts spoke at Pensions and Benefits UK to debate lay trustees, the 'disastrous' freedoms and the problem with having two regulators. Stephanie Baxter reports from the conference

Barnett Waddingham has been appointed scheme actuary to environmental management company Veolia's two defined benefit (DB) schemes.

The newly-launched Fiduciary Management Performance Standard has gained support from the biggest providers of independent evaluation services to pension funds.

Barnett Waddingham has promoted four staff to partners and another 25 staff to associates as it seeks to help clients cope with more "complex challenges".

Malcolm McLean says the green-tinged white paper raised almost as many questions as answers and we are still far from knowing the exact direction of government policy

The bill creating a new single financial guidance body and introducing provisions for a ban on pension cold-calling has received Royal Assent today.

Some 43% of defined benefit (DB) schemes are closed to future accrual, while just 4% are still open to new active members, according to analysis by Barnett Waddingham.

This week's top stories include Tesco cutting its defined benefit deficit by £2.8bn after it changed the way it reflected long-dated corporate bond yields in its discount rate.

Investment and law firms have the highest median gender hourly gender pay gaps out of nearly 100 pension-related firms reporting, James Phillips writes.

Barnett Waddingham has named Sonia Kataora as head of defined contribution (DC) investment following the promotion of Alex Pocock last month.