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The Pensions Regulator (TPR) "accepts" that many small pension schemes will never achieve the necessary standards it has laid out on governance.

Danone is making a range of changes to its benefits package including potentially back-dating employer contributions for auto-enrolled staff and an all-inclusive salary sacrifice car scheme.

In this week's Pension Buzz an overwhelming number of 115 respondents said providers should not be made to offer the full range of freedom and choice.

Defined contribution (DC) members using the pension flexibilities may find their savings are hit by inheritance tax (IHT) because of a "legislative error".

Should pension providers be forced to offer the full range of freedom and choice products to consumers? Natasha Browne investigates

Lesley Williams has been appointed the first woman chairperson of the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) and will succeed incumbent Ruston Smith whose two year term ends in October.

Prime minister David Cameron has vowed to keep a watchful eye on pension providers to ensure they do not hike up charges in the wake of the freedom and choice reforms.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is set to assess whether or not trustees of defined contribution (DC) pension schemes have applied the 0.75% charge cap which came into effect in April.

TPR chief exec on the challenges ahead

The proportion of people looking to take their pensions as cash has declined by almost a third over the weeks since the launch of the freedom reforms, according to research.