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Schemes' appetite for shareholder activism and corporate governance is increasing against the backdrop of growing public concern over boardroom bonus culture, a poll shows.

Large employers facing imminent auto-enrolment duties are still not ready for the new rules, with one-third not knowing their staging date, a YouGov poll finds.

Trustees of the Macmillan Cancer Support Pension Scheme have appointed Ernst & Young to monitor and challenge decisions made by its fiduciary manager Mn Services.

The Pensions Regulator has laid out six principles for defined contribution pensions to address the currently "mixed" standards across the market.

Mercer has called on The Pensions Regulator to clarify trustees' role in an economic environment where low gilt yields are distorting funding levels.

The government's proposed cuts to public sector pensions will not go far enough to plug the schemes' funding gaps, Labour peer Lord Hutton warns.

The small-self administered scheme market will become bogged down with "unsustainable and time-consuming bureaucracy" due to new Pensions Act requirements, a provider says.

Telent and its trustees, Stanhope Pension Trust, have renewed the scheme's administration contact with Xafinity Paymaster for another five years.

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TUI Travel's pension deficit has climbed above £500m as poor asset performance and changes to actuarial assumptions wiped out savings made by capping benefit accrual.