TPR

RSM has unveiled its annual scheme survey, revealing the actions trustees are taking to protect members from fraud. Kim Kaveh looks at the findings.

An accountant who acted as a trustee and administrator to pension schemes has pleaded guilty to five counts of fraud and two counts of making employer-related investments.

Professional trustees will be expected to apply for accreditation in the near future as a regulator-backed working group has published a set of seven standards against which they will need to demonstrate compliance.

This week's top stories included a Freedom of Information request revealing more than 100,000 savers could face six-figure tax bills as a result of GMP equalisation.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) used its enforcement powers more than 22,000 times in the final quarter of 2018, it has revealed.

Forcing company bosses to join the same defined benefit (DB) schemes as their staff could protect pensions better than the threat of prison sentences for scheme mismanagement, Warwick Business School (WBS) has suggested.

Company directors who deliberately or recklessly put their workers' pension funds at risk face seven years in prison under plans to crack down on "acts of astonishing arrogance and abandon".

The story of BHS is one of both outrage and happy endings. James Phillips speaks to trustee chairman Chris Martin and his advisers about the scheme's endgame journey

An accounts manager has been ordered to pay £5,000 after trying to hide that fact that restaurants he worked with had not given their staff access to workplace pensions.

Just eight master trusts have so far applied to The Pensions Regulator (TPR) for authorisation with just two months left until the deadline.