Trustees

Women who are most vulnerable to changes in the state pension should not receive help from the government to make transitional arrangements according to PP research.

From hackers stealing information from Talk Talk to Anthem, Michael Klimes looks at how safe schemes are from cyber criminals

Schemes have been urged to take advantage of an obscure procedure to amend scheme rules easily after the High Court backed trustees seeking to ignore drafting errors in their trust deeds.

The Appeal Court in Scotland has struck down a challenge to pension fund rules which could have made administrating complex schemes more difficult.

Pension professionals believe the industry spends too much time dealing with problems that affect a small number of high earners, according to PP research.

Martin Boniface has been made executive director at JLT Employee Benefits and will be responsible for running the trustee and corporate consulting arm of the business.

Top stories on PP this week include a boat builder not paying three months of contributions and unions rejecting a proposal from United Utilities to shut a DB scheme

Trustees and their advisers can do little to plug deficits of defined benefit (DB) schemes in the face of market forces which are beyond their control, says Andrew Warwick-Thompson.

NEST should be made the default auto-enrolment provider for small firms, according to a majority of respondents to Professional Pensions research.

The industry believes The Pensions Regulator (TPR) must give trustees more guidance on reporting on value for money, PP research finds.