The Financial Conduct Authority will prohibit third parties from charging customers for services linked to pensions dashboards as part of its regulatory framework for the initiative.

On the go: Around a third of self-employed Nest members in a Nest Insight savings trial have never made a contribution to their pension pot.

Nest is recruiting for three new non-executive directors as it attempts to improve the diversity of its board, the master trust’s chair has told Pensions Expert.

On the go: Defined contribution scheme trustees are being encouraged to shift their focus on illiquid investments from cost to value, in a series of guides published by the Productive Finance Working Group.

The Pensions Regulator will impose fines of up to £50,000 for non-compliance over pensions dashboards. 

On the go: Workplace pension scheme members are losing around £1.7bn a year during their transition into and in retirement, according to new research from master trust HSBC Tomorrow.

On the go: Providers of defined contribution schemes need to “vastly improve” their digital offers so members can make the right choices in decumulation, warns Hymans Robertson.

On the go: A new accreditation scheme has been launched to tackle the amount of time it takes to switch savings, investments and pensions between providers.

CPD: Sackers senior counsel Naomi Brown looks back at how the world of pension communications has morphed from a straightforward box-ticking disclosure exercise to one where trustees are communicating with members in a completely different way.