Trustee

Standard Life Investments has launched a suite of online training tools targeted at institutional investors.

The number of schemes retendering investment consulting services has dropped by 44% in two years according to research from IC Select.

Trustees are not engaged with default funds or charges, despite both issues being in the spotlight ahead of auto-enrolment's introduction later this year, the Pensions Regulator says.

Banks should be subject to the same level of scrutiny as the trustees of pension funds, a consultancy says.

The pensions industry is ‘widely and justifiably distrusted' and must redeem its reputation with the public to kick start a savings culture in the UK, a think tank warns.

The People's Pension has unveiled its "starting" trustee board, composed entirely of independent trustees.

The Bayer Group Pension Plan has moved to paperless trustee board meetings in a switch it says will cut its annual paper usage by 45,000 pages.

A bankrupt who lost a High Court battle over whether he should hand over his pension to creditors will appeal the decision this autumn.

The majority of member nominated trustees are appointed by occupational schemes with no regard by sponsors for the rules around fairness and proportionality, research claims.

Schemes are not appointing independent trustees because of concerns over cost, research reveals.