Trustees

Nikesh Patel has been appointed to PwC's pension investment advisory business.

Administrators should be more assertive and take a leadership role in the pensions industry, according to Pensions Administration Standards Association (PASA) board member Geraldine Brassett.

Most of the industry believes The Pensions Regulator (TPR) should focus on improving member outcomes rather than minimising the risk of detriment, according to research from PP.

Simon Kew has joined Deloitte's corporate finance pension's team as an assistant director.

Fidelity has extended its defined contribution (DC) platform to give customers access to incoming retirement flexibilities but warned that operational capability alone will not ensure the policy is successful.

Defined benefit trustees believe managing investment risk will present them with the biggest challenge next year, according to PP research.

Research carried out by PP has found that defined contribution (DC) trustees think communicating the Budget flexibilities to members is their biggest challenge next year.

Most trustees say their default investment strategies still assume members will annuitise when they retire despite expecting annuity sales to plummet.

Origo has cut the time taken to switch pensions using its Options Transfers service to 45 minutes.

The industry is not satisfied with efforts to improve contract-based governance