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Aberdeen Life has appointed NEST chair Otto Thoresen and David Hare as non-executive directors to its board.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) will publish a white paper on the future of defined benefit (DB) schemes this winter, which will cover consolidation and extra powers for the regulator.

The Supreme Court has ruled an exemption in the Equality Act, which allows schemes to exclude same-sex partners from spousal benefits accrued before December 2005, is discriminatory and breaches EU equality laws.

More than half of retirement pots accessed under pension freedom rules have been fully withdrawn, the Financial Conduct Authority confirmed in its interim retirement outcomes review.

The aggregate deficit of 5794 schemes in the Pension Protection Fund's (PPF) 7800 Index is estimated to have decreased to £186.2bn by the end of June.

Aon has acquired Portus Consulting as part of wider plans to grow its UK employee benefits business both organically and through acquisition.

The Pensions Regulator's (TPR) determinations panel has seen a significant rise in casework, making a record 41 determinations in the last financial year.

The National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) added 1.6 million members and signed up 240,000 employers over the past financial year, according to its annual report.

This week we want to know if mentoring trustees is an effective way to increase diversity on boards and whether GMP equalisation should be scrapped.

The 2016/17 annual report of The Pension Regulator (TPR) has highlighted the occurrence of one "serious incident" in the past year that resulted in data loss.