Stephen Lowe, group communications director at Just Group, would like to get some straight answers to the Work and Pensions Committee’s inquiry on why guidance is still not the norm when savers make use of pension freedoms.

The pandemic has turned the attention of many, including pension funds, to social factors, but there are more challenging issues for trustees to address, writes Lauren Wilkinson, senior policy researcher at the Pensions Policy Institute.

The government’s policy in regards to auto-enrolment and the money purchase annual allowance needs to be reviewed to avoid pension poverty, warns Renny Biggins, head of retirement at The Investing and Saving Alliance.

More gender and race diversity is needed in trustee boards as this will result in better outcomes for members of pensions schemes, writes professional trustee Shola Salako.

River and Mercantile’s co-head of solutions, Ajeet Manjrekar, details a three-step plan that allows schemes to have a derisking framework consistent with regulatory expectations, while enabling effective decisions.

Premier Pensions head of administration Girish Menezes details how the pandemic has made pension fund data vulnerable to cyber attacks, and explains what schemes and administrators can do to better protect their members’ information.

Sion Cole, head of UK fiduciary business at BlackRock, details how climate-adjusted analytics are key to mapping pension schemes’ climate risk exposures.

As the UK government turns its attention to the social factors in schemes’ environmental, social and governance investment strategies, Big Society Capital interim chief executive Stephen Muers explains how pension funds can address this issue while maintaining fiduciary duty to their members.

The Pensions Regulator might encounter difficulties in gathering information from overseas entities after the Supreme Court ruled that similar powers held by the Serious Fraud Office do not have an international reach, explain Herbert Smith Freehills pensions associate Aaron Zack and litigation partner John Whiteoak.