Pension scheme trustees are no longer required to comply with money laundering requirements after a U-turn by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).

While I accept it is the role of nearly every pensions expert to point out that most of us are not saving enough for retirement beginning sometime between age 55-65, I am not convinced that it is the role of every pensions consultancy to try and calculate the pensions deficit of FTSE companies.

The Independent Pensions Trustees Group is planning a mass VAT reclamation campaign which could see HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) face a bill of £10m.

The £1.3bn Trafalgar House pension scheme is to pay its new investment adviser and derivative overlay manager solely on a performance-related basis.

The Conservative party has warned it will not blindly pursue a failing personal accounts system that is failing if it wins the next general election.

Over 60% of annuity providers now produce good quality wake-up letters, according to the Financial Services Authority (FSA).

Paternoster chief executive Mark Wood has voiced “grave concerns” over schemes encouraging members to leave early, which he believes could give buyout a bad name.

That there is a downward trend in defined benefit schemes is undeniable. Increased longevity and clearer identification of the costs and liabilities have ensured this.

So many FTSE 350 executives have pension pots equal to or greater than the lifetime allowance that only half are accruing any further pension.

Schemes that purchase covenant insurance will still have to pay the Pension Protection Fund’s (PPF) scheme-based levy, after an amendment to the pensions bill was withdrawn.

Pensioner buyouts are more affordable due to an increase in gilt and bond assets and lower overall costs, according to Paternoster.

Employers should be free to design the pension schemes that suit them and then be left alone, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has pleaded.

A service that releases insolvency practitioners (IPs) from the liabilities of trusteeship after a defined contribution scheme becomes insolvent has been launched by Alexander Forbes.

Employees planning to use property to fund their retirement have had their confidence rocked, new research has revealed.

UK pension funds hedged around £18bn of liabilities in the first six months of 2008, according to a survey measuring liability-driven investment (LDI) activity.

Emerging market assets now account for 13% of total market capitalisation, according to an analysis of MSCI statistics by Baring Asset Management.

When PW received a letter slamming the TUC’s trustee research featured in last week’s issue, we thought it only fair to give the TUC a right to reply. Here is the result

Here is a story you will have heard before. I caught up with a

Trustees must be prepared to give the time and effort if they are to

participate fully in this interactive process, which combines so many aspects of their duties

Despite their obvious polarity, passive and active methods of investing can work together to lower costs and generate returns

Are UK investors holding enough senior executives to account for their actions, asks Tom Powdrill

Deadlines looming? Poor economic climate getting you down? Who can think of a better way of relieving the working week’s tensions than twirling flaming ball and chains above one’s head while celebrating the Maori culture through the medium of dance? Helen Miller explains.

Changes in legislation and recent court determinations have resulted in increasing duties and obligations placed on trustees: a role that can attach personal liability if things go wrong.

Emma Watkins (pic) is joining MetLife (Europe) Assurance after four years’ service at ACE Europe.