Pension professionals have welcomed today's Work and Pensions Select Committee proposal for the government to establish a single regulator for workplace pensions.

With market rates remaining low and schemes unable to meet derisking triggers, this week's In Depth explores whether they should hedge further or hold back?

Schemes receiving suspicious transfer requests are struggling to balance their duty to act in members’ interests against taking all reasonable steps to satisfy themselves about a receiving scheme, experts have said.

The 10 founding investors of the Pensions Infrastructure Platform are locked in discussions about whether the £1bn fund should be managed in-house or externally, and whether or not it should accept construction risk.

News analysis: Defined ambition could be adopted by smaller employers, through industry-wide arrangements that share risk and limit cost, but apprehension among companies is likely, experts have said.

News analysis: The government’s plans to bring forward the single-tier state pension should encourage more focused thinking from employers on managing the end of contracting-out, but further detail on defined ambition would give them more options, according to industry experts.

The government’s proposals for a principles-based approach to the disclosure of information to members could create uncertainty among schemes familiar with the current regime, according to industry experts.