News analysis: Exceptions to auto-enrolment regulations due next year will bring more flexibility to schemes, but may be too late to help those already enrolled. 

The Cable & Wireless Communications defined contribution scheme will not replace its freestyle investment funds that its provider pulled from the market, due to concerns over buying power owing to its small size.

Members of the Royal Mail Defined Contribution Plan have welcomed the scheme’s decision to default at retirement into an annuity broking service to maximise their retirement income.

News analysis: Schemes and their advisers do not have to fear a Supreme Court judgment that has been predicted to make it harder for trustees to rectify mistakes, lawyers have said.

Equities are more attractive in the long term than bonds, according to the London Borough of Hackney Pension Fund, which is even modelling the impact of a 100 per cent equity allocation on the scheme’s investments.

Dorset County Pension Fund has set up an “expensive” special investment vehicle to circumvent troublesome Local Government Pension Scheme regulations, as it works to manage inflation.

Essex Pension Fund has produced a map to help predict employer insolvency after a liquidation left it saddled with orphan liabilities.