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The Merchant Navy Officers Pension Fund (MNOPF) is to rebrand its third party administration and trustee services businesses, MNPA and MNTS, as Ensign.

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has confirmed the legal and tax frameworks for tax transparent funds (TTFs) will be implemented this summer, after suffering delays.

Defined benefit (DB) scheme closures and increasing bulk annuity exercises are driving an increase in schemes outsourcing their administration, research from Aon Hewitt shows.

Insurance industry organisations need to do more on stewardship, Financial Reporting Council (FRC) senior investment adviser Peter Montagnon has said.

McDonalds has reported opt out rates of less than 2.5% after auto-enrolment (AE) staging.

Pension schemes and insurers should be forced to use "all means available" in a bid to trace five million lost members of final salary schemes, Equiniti Paymaster says.

The shift towards fees brought about by the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) could lead to a reduction in member engagement says Capita's head of DC Paul Sturgess.

Early opt-out rates for auto-enrolment (AE) are "skewed" by employer size, KPMG DC director Andy Seed warns.

Pensions minster Steve Webb is praising employers for "stunning examples" of firms going the extra mile to engage employees during auto-enrolment (AE) resulting in opting-in becoming the norm.

The pensions industry is full of vested interests and must cut out "parasites" in order to regain trust in saving, a consultant says.