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This week's top stories include an article on climate activists from Extinction Rebellion crashing the PLSA's local authority conference, and an in-depth piece on the Court of Appeal's ruling on the BIC UK Pension Scheme case.

The DWP has led a tailored review of The Pensions Regulator (TPR) following calls for it to become a more active regulator in the industry.

The Pensions Regulator has set how it has used its powers over the first three months of the year in a bid to better protect scheme members.

KAS Bank has built on its cost transparency dashboard to offer UK defined contribution (DC) scheme trustees the option to benchmark costs relative to other pension funds.

The John Lewis Partnership has announced plans to close the defined benefit (DB) section of its combined pension scheme.

The Work and Pensions Select Committee (WPC) has called on the FCA to explore the case for setting an upper limit for the amount of a DB transfer fee that can be received via contingent charging.

Employers who breach their automatic enrolment (AE) pension duties will be targeted with short-notice inspections by The Pensions Regulator (TPR).

There will be "ups and downs" for employers in the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) as it carries out its 2019 valuation against the backdrop of the cost cap suspension and the McCloud judgment.

XPS Pensions has combined its transfer value index and its transfer activity index to create a transfer watch service to understand the trends and behaviours of members accessing the pension freedoms.

Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) administering authorities which fail to pay their levy to the Scheme Advisory Board (SAB) will see their names published online, they have been warned.