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How advances in IT can cut the cost of schemes' actuarial services

Rachel Dalton looks at how charities supporting DB schemes are being hit hard by the recession

Trustees and schemes are at risk of significant problems because administrators are withholding information, according to advisers.

The Pension Protection Fund has launched a specialist administration services panel it says will cut the time schemes spend in its assessment period.

A glut of private sector competitors to the National Employment Savings Trust could have a negative long-term impact on savers, an actuary warns.

The Pension Protection Fund has appointed a further four actuarial firms in a major extension of its ‘assess and pay' project to speed up scheme entry into the lifeboat fund.

A consultant has accused The Pensions Trust of "living in the previous century" and being "completely irresponsible" for advocating defined benefit schemes for the third sector.

Government proposals to link increases in public service pensions to the CPI will force thousands of couples to delay divorce proceedings, an actuary warns.