Rachel Dalton looks at figures on pension funds’ changing approach to investment risk

The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has announced that the Pension Infrastructure Platform (PIP) has launched the PPP Equity PIP Limited Partnership, its first fund.

The government has proposed an amendment to the Pensions Bill which will pave the way for regulations requiring the disclosure of transaction costs to scheme members.

The government will introduce transparency requirements on transaction charges in workplace defined contribution (DC) schemes, pensions minister Steve Webb has announced.

A group of Labour lords have tabled an amendment to the Pensions Bill that would force the government to impose a pension scheme charge cap by 30 April 2015.

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has published a revised version of the Statutory Money Purchase Illustration (SMPI) rules.

Global firms may be underestimating their defined benefit (DB) liabilities by "tens of billions of euros" because of differing longevity across the countries in which they operate, LCP warns.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has ruled that schemes may restrict survivor benefits for civil partners to post-2005 accrual without falling foul of anti-discrimination law.

ShareAction’s Catherine Howarth says auto-enrolment calls for tight governance standards

The average annual management charge is 0.71% and 0.84% for defined contribution (DC) trust-based and contract-based schemes respectively, according to Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) research.