Governance

Concerns about excessive executive pay could crowd out other important governance issues, ShareAction chief executive Catherine Howarth has said.

Three pension funds have teamed up to launch a project to measure the relationship between governance structures of UK schemes and the costs of maintaining them.

A majority in the industry do not believe all trust-based schemes should have an independent trustee.

European schemes expect governance demands to escalate and investment decisions to become increasingly complex over the next five years, according to research from State Street Global Services.

Legal and General Investment Management has teamed up with PensionsFirst to develop an online monitoring and analytics platform for smaller schemes.

Swansea Council "unlawfully" transferred £20m from its pension scheme to balance its books when changing banks, according to the Wales Audit Office.

The UK has spent too long developing layers of ineffective and frustrating regulation in its financial services sector, John Kay says.

The cost of governance is increasing as it becomes increasingly important to schemes and others in the financial services industry, research has shown.

PTL has launched an observed meeting service for trustees.

The Pensions Regulator has published its final list of quality features for trust-based defined contribution schemes for consultation.