PLSA

This week's top stories include speculation about what the snap general election may mean for pensions, and Bernard Matthews' owners accused by MPs of throwing out a deal to save the DB scheme for their own benefit.

Joanne Segars is stepping down as chief executive of the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) after leading it for more than 10 years.

Nearly half (47%) of 35 to 54-year-olds plan to use property to fund their retirement lifestyles, with some anticipating this despite not yet owning their own home.

The state pension triple lock is too expensive to keep long term according to Pensions Buzz respondents.

The Investment Association (IA) has revealed its proposed code to standardise cost disclosure across collective funds, segregated mandates, and institutional investors.

David Brooks says consolidation is not the only option for DB schemes

The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) has called for savers to be "automatically protected" in retirement by phasing them between drawdown and annuitisation.

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.

Last week I was up in Edinburgh at the PLSA Investment Conference. I attended lots of very useful sessions but I must admit there was one that surprised me.

The PLSA's DB taskforce has suggested employers should be able to offload their DB scheme into merged 'superfunds'. James Phillips explores the idea.