Pinsent Masons

Former chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds Robin Ellison has launched a group to help pension funds and investment managers recover their "fair share" of security class actions.

Three firms have joined together to offer a one-stop liability management service for not-for-profit organisations that are admitted bodies to the Local Government Pension Scheme.

Government calculations on public sector pension savings have been labelled "fundamentally unsound" after independent analysis revealed increasing retirement ages failed to cut taxpayer costs.

The groups that failed in a judicial review of the government's indexation switch intend to appeal the decision - a move which will lead to further uncertainty for schemes.

Regulation is pushing trustees into bad investment decisions and causing confrontations with employers, delegates heard.

Government has ruled out new changes to collective defined contribution scheme regulations after criticism legal restrictions will kill off the sector.

Payroll providers need to "get moving" on software that can deal with the complications of auto-enrolment, delegates heard.

A war of words has broken between chief secretary of the Treasury Danny Alexander and unions after the revised public sector pensions offer.

The tone of industry regulators is "aggressive and confrontational" rather than being collegiate with the industry, a lawyer says.

A £650m government loan facility for the National Employment Savings Trust will be "unrecoverable" as the agreement allows the terms of the loan to be renegotiated, a lawyer says.