On the go: Staff at 44 institutions are to walk out once again over planned benefit cuts to the Universities Superannuation Scheme.

Legal & General is “well advanced” with the development of a commercial dashboard, building on the work done in the alpha and beta stages of the Pensions Dashboards Programme.

Podcast: Now Pensions’ head of PR and campaigns, Samantha Gould, is joined by Linklaters pensions partner John Sheppard to discuss auto-enrolment, pensions dashboards, and illiquid investments by defined contribution schemes.

This week – UUK warns time is running out as USS deadline looms, the government is set to consult on ‘levelling up’ LGPS targets, The People’s Pension slams DWP’s plan to introduce single flat charging, and a new survey finds a third of savers have ‘very little trust’ in the pensions industry.

Employer representatives have again criticised the University and College Union as the deadline for avoiding “unaffordable” contribution rate hikes in the Universities Superannuation Scheme approaches.

On the go: Last year saw a small rise in members’ trust in pensions, but almost a third (31.5 per cent) still have “no or very little trust” in the industry, according to a Trafalgar House survey.

On the go: The Pensions Policy Institute has appointed Madeline Forrester as its new chair of council.

On the go: The independent review of the state pension age has published a call for evidence seeking views on the fairness, sustainability and affordability of the system.

Data crunch: The professional corporate sole trusteeship model is expected to have a ‘very positive’ impact on scheme governance in 2022, with smaller plans being the quickest on the uptake, a Ross Trustees survey finds.

On the go: Climate change could have significant impact on sponsor covenant, hitting cash flows and potentially impacting sponsor longevity, according to a report from the Employer Covenant Practitioners Association.