TPR

The Pensions Regulator has been urged to open up on the workings of its determinations panel.

Awareness of auto-enrolment among intermediaries has improved since 2012, but knowledge gaps still remain among small business advisers, the Pensions Regulator says.

Disgraced former tax boss Andrew Meeson - found guilty of a £5m pensions tax fraud on Tuesday - has been linked to two alleged pension liberation cases, PP can reveal.

Taha Lokhandwala examines the options for TPR’s forthcoming conditional data standards

Jack Jones looks at responses to the DWP consultation on smoothing discount rates

Schemes should follow TPR’s push for good data, says Helen Morrissey

The Pensions Regulator has launched an e-learning tool for trustees and administrators to help them recognise pension liberation fraud schemes.

Schemes should design auto-enrolment procedures with a longer term focus than the staging date, Tesco corporate pension manager Karen Wake says.

Small and medium sized employers may attempt to offload auto-enrolment set-up costs onto workers via consultancy charging if they are not properly scrutinised, the Pensions Regulator chief executive Bill Galvin says.

AkzoNobel has slashed deficit recovery plans for its main UK schemes by almost €500m (£440m) over the last year as part of a strategy to cut costs and improve returns.