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A third round of IGC reports show most have lowered charges, but transaction costs remain hard to pin down. Kim Kaveh looks at the key findings.

The Ensign Retirement Plan has reduced its annual management charges and introduced an income drawdown facility, in a bid to better prepare members for retirement.

The regulator is not striking the right balance in its 'clearer, quicker and tougher' approach on enforcement, according to this week's Pensions Buzz respondents.

Employers should do more to engage members with pensions and help them harness the full potential of their options to reach a good retirement outcome, according to research.

Three years after Freedom and Choice, many default funds still have not moved away from targeting annuity purchase. This could have unintended investment risks for members, writes Victoria Ticha

Martin Freeman has been hired as head of technology product and development at Smart Pension, to support the 'growing' technology product side of the business.

Total UK pension liabilities rose to approximately £7.6trn from 2010 to 2015, according to the latest data published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Industry believes the CMA investigation into the investment consultant market has had no noticeable impact on their business activity.

Women still fall well behind men when it comes to saving for retirement despite auto-enrolment (AE) increasing contributions year on year, Pension Monster data shows.

An interactive and hands-free technology that allows savers to track how much they have invested into their retirement pots has been launched by Smart Pension.