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In the latest of PP's series of Scheme Excellence interviews, Jonathan Stapleton talks to Allan Heron of United Utilities Pension Scheme about changes that have been made over the past year.

Lord Hutton talks to Naomi Rainey about the future of MyCSP

Enrolling staff is only the first stage of workplace reforms.

This month the legal panel describe their areas of focus for the year ahead and discuss pension reform, including their predictions for the pensions minister's next move.

It's been around a year since pensions minister Steve Webb first touted the idea of defined ambition and around two months since the DWP published its (somewhat wavy) DB-lite and DC-plus options, but it's all gone a bit quiet since.

When talking about what caused the death of defined benefit pensions, the usual suspects always pop up. Soaring liabilities are generally considered to have dealt the fatal blow, but didn't act alone; at the very least, red tape acted as look out.

Rachel Dalton examines the forces closing in on money purchase.

In the age of instant communications and wide-spread personal publishing, campaigns are easy to start. If you want to shout about something, a couple of tweets or a blog can get the message out there fast.

John Chilman of First UK Bus explains to Taha Lokhandwala why he believes its pension scheme's accolades were well deserved.

The government is considering relaxing a black-and-white definition of "money purchase" to avoid shifting the goalposts on defined contribution schemes with guarantees, according to experts.