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The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has revealed concerns about charging, governance and scale in workplace defined contribution (DC) schemes.

The Pensions Regular (TPR) has been asked not to publish a list of suspected pension liberators over fears it will make those running them harder to catch, Pension Administration Standards Association (PASA) chairman Margaret Snowdon says.

The Department for Education's (DfE) commitment to underwrite Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) liabilities for academies does not address the issue of high legacy liabilities, an expert warns.

A ruling that alleged pensions liberation schemes are not occupational schemes would have significant implications for members, a lawyer has argued.

The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) received around 4,500 complaints between April 2012 and March 2013, over half of which were not investigated.

Full implementation of the government's National Infrastructure Plan and a major shift in the understanding of scheme requirements could boost GDP by £400bn, research reveals.

Con Keating asks why the pensions world is plagued by spin and misrepresentation - and asks what can be done about it.

HSBC will no longer offer its Workplace Retirement Services (WRS) through external independent financial advisers (IFAs), it has confirmed.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is looking into claims traders intentionally pushed up the price of government bonds before attempting to sell them to the Bank of England (BoE) in 2011.

Insurance group RSA has reduced its deficit recovery plan after the firm's triennial valuation revealed a 36% drop in its deficit.