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A pensions liberation working committee will be set up "within weeks" to create best practice guidelines for trustees, Pensions Administration Standards Association (PASA) chair Margaret Snowdon says.

Third-party administrators (TPAs) have blocked 158 transfer requests due to increasing vigilance around pension liberation fraud, according to a Go Pensions survey.

Audits of financial service firms continue to fall below the average standard, according to the Financial Reporting Council (FRC).

The European Court has rejected the BT Pension Scheme's attempt to have its partial exemption from paying the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) levy restored.

Pensions minister Steve Webb has pledged to conduct a review of pensions decumulation.

Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) has increased its allocated funds to social housing by purchasing £72m of bonds from Salford City Council.

Firefighters in England and Wales will strike over pension reform on Wednesday 25 September, the Fire Bridges Union (FBU) confirms.

An investor group has called on the UK Competition Commission (CC) to introduce mandatory audit rotation in its final report on the market.

LCP has extended its fixed-fee bulk annuity service for smaller schemes to cover full buyouts.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has found breaches to Principle 8 regarding conflicts of interest in half of the firms it reviewed as part of a report into inducements between advisers and providers.