On the go: A government consultation has warned that the general levy on schemes used to fund the Pensions Regulator will need to rise steadily to reverse a widening deficit, but floated a fairer methodology for master trusts.

On the go: Master trust Nest is to double its allocation to emerging market equities across its retirement date funds, while adding a climate-aware tilt to the strategy.

Data crunch: Thirty leading asset managers have pledged net-zero emissions by 2050 or sooner, on the heels of a landmark divestment announcement by the $226bn New York public pension. But a key datapoint suggests companies’ capital expenditure does not yet match managers’ sustainability rhetoric.

On the go: Join Pensions Expert and American Century Investments for a webinar exploring impact investing and what is permitted under UK law, and how responsible investing might be leveraged to spark engagement with scheme members.

On the go: Businesses trialling Nest Insight’s sidecar savings project say it can provide a boost to financial wellbeing, but caution that questions of inertia and affordability need to be overcome.

The UK’s largest pension funds are among those hailing a “moment of reckoning” for transport companies failing to align with the Paris agreement on climate change, as the investment community evaluates its own success in engagement.

On the go: The Department for Work and Pensions has launched a new working group to examine ways to give investors in pooled fund products greater influence in voting shares and securities owned on their behalf.

On the go: Trustees of defined benefit schemes belonging to troubled motoring group the AA have agreed funding principles with the company’s new private equity backers, including a commitment not to increase technical provisions where possible.

On the go: UK employers have voiced overwhelming support for reform of the UK’s complex system of pensions taxation, even if it means that some are worse off.