The Pensions Regulator

This week's top stories included the Insolvency Service disqualifying four pension directors from running companies for a total of 21 years for their role in the businesses' mismanagement of member funds.

The Pensions Administration Standards Association (PASA) has created an administration governance checklist for trustees in response to the regulator's 21st century trustee initiative.

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

This week's top stories included coverage of the Court of Appeal's judgment in the latest instalment of British Airways' five-year battle with its trustees.

There will be no transitional 'comply or explain' period for professional trustees to prepare for mandatory standards when they come into force later this year, a regulator-backed working group has announced.

Richard Favier says the process for regulated apportionment agreements is complex, lengthy, expensive, but there is a solution

Martin Hunter says while new TPR powers will increase the burden on all DB employers, it isn't all doom and gloom

With just three months to go before TPR's master trust authorisation regime launches, the watchdog has outlined further details of its expectations. James Phillips reports

The pensions and financial inclusion minister tells James Phillips about his first year in office and his philosophy behind pension policy creation.

Respondents were split in this week's Pensions Buzz on whether the £1m maximum penalty for failing to notify The Pensions Regulator (TPR) of certain corporate events was appropriate.