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A rapid increase in late payments to company schemes could be a sign of an "impending wave of restructurings and insolvencies", Pinsent Masons says.

Standard Life head of workplace proposition Ann Flynn has quit her role with the insurer just days after workplace director Ronnie Taylor.

The UK's top judge, Supreme Court president Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, will next month decide whether pension schemes should retain "super priority" status in insolvencies.

In the second of her blogs on teaching in Kumasi, Catherine Love Soper shares her experience adapting Core Technical 2 for Ghanaian students.

The majority of this week's respondents thought self-sufficiency was the long-term target for most defined benefit schemes. Although many pointed out that this was a protean term, more than half said it was what schemes were aiming for.

Respondents were not certain whether the Pension Protection Fund's expectations were affecting administration standards, or whether this was such a bad thing anyway.

Buzz respondents were split down the middle as to whether accounting and other regulations were acting as a disincentive for schemes to act as long-term investors.

There was plenty of scepticism about the prospects of an investor forum driving up returns, a decent amount of indifference, and an extremely small amount of optimism.

Pensions Buzz is a weekly survey of the industry. This week respondents share concerns about The Pensions Regulator's plans for trust-based DC and discuss the long-term aims of DB schemes.

GAB Robins UK has entered a regulated apportionment arrangement with the Pension Protection Fund to eliminate its scheme liabilities.