Pinsent Masons

Auto-enrolment legislation needs to be redrafted to clarify whether employees are allowed to obtain and complete opt-out forms before their enrolment date, argue lawyers and consultants.

The date of sponsor insolvency should be used to calculate section 75 debt liabilities - saving sponsors millions of pounds in potential liabilities, the High Court rules.

In a recent Professional Pensions story, a lawyer said that the method chosen by the Department for Work and Pensions for equalising GMPs could be challenged. Do you agree?

Law firms Pinsent Masons and McGrigors have confirmed plans to merge the two organisations following a partner vote.

Former chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds Robin Ellison has launched a group to help pension funds and investment managers recover their "fair share" of security class actions.

Three firms have joined together to offer a one-stop liability management service for not-for-profit organisations that are admitted bodies to the Local Government Pension Scheme.

Government calculations on public sector pension savings have been labelled "fundamentally unsound" after independent analysis revealed increasing retirement ages failed to cut taxpayer costs.

The groups that failed in a judicial review of the government's indexation switch intend to appeal the decision - a move which will lead to further uncertainty for schemes.

Regulation is pushing trustees into bad investment decisions and causing confrontations with employers, delegates heard.

Government has ruled out new changes to collective defined contribution scheme regulations after criticism legal restrictions will kill off the sector.