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Schemes conducting pension increase exchange exercises must provide personalised statements and a helpline to help members understand their choice, a consultant argues.

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.

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

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 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.

Jack Jones on the PPF's levy appeal process