Last week's Pension & Investment Provider Awards ceremony in London was a glitzy affair attended by key pensions industry folk from all corners of the sector.

… plus a behind-the-scenes video showing how the judges chose the victors.

The term ‘low-yield environment’, which once struck fear into the hearts of scheme trustees tackling deficits, has all but got its feet under the table. We are almost, but not quite, at home with the reality, like the in-laws who came for two weeks but ended up staying for six months.

The election was unlike any other in recent memory for a host of reasons: its too-close-to-call nature, the shock not-quite-as-close exit poll on Thursday night, Jeremy Paxman ditching his fearsome Newsnight demeanour to dabble in wit on comedy panel shows.

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So taking the politics out of pensions is proving harder than this sensible-sounding phrase suggests.

Closing a defined benefit scheme to future accrual is no longer considered a controversial move in the private sector.

No matter how often political sparring is proved a turnoff for voters, it’s a necessary part of the process and an accepted piece of theatre.