The Pensions Management Institute (PMI) has launched an accreditation scheme for internal training programmes involved in pension, employee benefits and retirement savings.

Housing organisation Curo is to boost its affordable housing building with a £75m funding deal with M&G Investments, as fund manager activity increases in the asset class.

The Tax Incentivised Savings Association (TISA) is to develop guidelines helping firms deal with data around lost customers and unclaimed assets.

The value of defined contribution (DC) lifestyle funds has fallen by 5% on average since May as bond prices dropped, research from Hargreaves Lansdown shows.

First UK Bus has seen 15% of its auto-enrolled workforce opt out of its scheme since it began auto-enrolment in April.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) head of pensions and benefits Ray Martin is set to leave his post in order to join Switzerland-based Tetra Laval.

The value of the market for liability driven investment (LDI) has risen 11% over 2012 led by the growth in inflation hedging, a KPMG report finds.

There is a strong link between companies being paternalistic and wanting to administer their pension schemes in-house, Tesco corporate pension manager Karen Wake says.

Administration services have been treated as "Cinderella" for too long leading to a lack of focus on accuracy, the chairman of an industry pension scheme says.

The Merchant Navy Officers Pension Fund (MNOPF) is to rebrand its third party administration and trustee services businesses, MNPA and MNTS, as Ensign.