Trustee

This week, Buzz respondents said trustees must get better at understanding fees.

An even greater proportion of Buzz respondents said schemes must do more to understand the fees they pay to asset managers.

Most Buzz respondents believe trustees and scheme managers are not doing enough to get to grips with fees they pay for transition management services.

Jack Jones looks at the industry’s response to TPR’s proposals on overseeing defined benefit

Rachel Dalton looks at how a trustee board can deal with a difficult member

Jonathan Stapleton says schemes could benefit from more representative trustee boards

Trustees are spending too much time on documentation, member gripes and box-ticking rather than focusing on more fundamental aspects of running their schemes, an independent trustee says.

Most of the 41 pension liberation cases currently under investigation by the Pensions Ombudsman (PO) are complaints against trustees blocking transfers to suspicious vehicles.

The number of pension liberation complaints under investigation by the Pensions Ombudsman (PO) has risen to 41, PP can reveal.

This week Pensions Buzz looks at women in pensions. Find out if the industry thinks there are enough women on trustee boards, and whether quotas are needed.