BESTrustees

Government has appointed Alan Pickering as independent chairman of the reformed public sector Royal Mail Statutory Pension Scheme.

Penny Green has taken up a public relations role as non-executive director of GR Communications.

BESTrustees has appointed Giles Craven as an associate on its team of independent trustees.

The Association of Corporate Trustees is set to consider a new code of conduct for professional trustees amid opposition from those working in the industry.

The coalition has made positive changes on pensions but has so far failed to enact measures to reinvigorate workplace schemes, a PP panel of experts says.

The problem of undersaving for retirement is not a new one.

There is a "real danger" the auto-enrolment regime could be so broad it becomes an unenforceable law, Alan Pickering warns.

This week, letters from John Scott, Simon Kew and Alan Pickering.

The PP Pensions Commission was charged with formulating a range of simple, low-cost policies the new government could look to implement as soon as it came to power in a bid to improve pensions provision.

UK/ITALY - The Alitalia Italian Airlines Pension and Assurance Scheme has entered into a pension insurance buy-in with Pension Insurance Corporation with a deficit of more than £22m (US$33.7m).