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The Actuarial Profession has suggested scheme actuaries be barred from advising companies on funding but stopped short of proposing an outright ban on actuaries working for both trustee and sponsor.

Auto-enrolment may not make a difference to saving rates until 2015, according to the Con­federation of British Industry.

Schemes are continuing to focus on equity performance risk despite reducing allocations to this class, research finds.

Social care will suffer as people work for longer and receive a smaller pension, Pensions Policy Institute research director Chris Curry told delegates.

The Daily Mail and General Trust has overhauled its employee financial awareness blog site in a bid to drive up member engagement.

A lawyer has urged the Pension Protection Fund to clarify its appeal process after the The Pensions Trust successfully argued for a reduction to its schemes' levy.

Trustees should resist the urge to cut communications budgets in response to evidence pensions are becoming less highly valued by employees, argues Capita Fiduciary Group.

The retail distribution review will "ratchet up" the professionalism of financial advisers, according to the Financial Service Authority's head of investment policy Peter Smith.

A code of conduct for corporate trustees is being "examined" by The Association of Corporate Trustees.

Increasing the state pension age could bring economic hardship to people in their early 60s, according to TUC head of campaigns and communications Nigel Stanley.