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NAPF delegates have been urged to look beyond cost when assessing whether their scheme is providing value for money.

Labour pensions spokesman Gregg McClymont has called for the Office of Fair Trading to investigate pension fund charges as part of its campaign for transparency.

MAM Funds managing director Gervais Williams has described the lack of investment in growing small businesses as "collective madness".

Financial directors are not convinced by the "mantra" that pension spending aids recruitment and retention, according to research from JLT Benefit Solutions and Cass Business School.

Six schemes have become "founding investors" in the Pension Infrastructure Platform, with soft commitment of £100m each.

MoneySavingExpert.com founder Martin Lewis has called for the industry to scrap the word ‘pensions' claiming its brand is tainted.

The National Employment Savings Trust will implement a fully-automated process allowing self-employed people to join the scheme in January 2013.

The Association of Corporate Trustees has adopted a provisional code of conduct to improve standards of trusteeship and ward off calls for more regulation.

Fear of missing out on yield is driving pension funds to invest in riskier assets such as high yield and asset-backed securities.

This year's ‘shareholder spring' may not have been the revolution it was portrayed to be, as many large companies were engaging investors prior to annual general meetings, Legal and General Investment Management says.