Redundancies at British Airways coupled with members’ concerns about the security of their pensions have significantly increased the workload of its administration team, which has prompted the schemes to set up a communication plan to deal with the issue.

The McCloud reform will create challenges for Local Government Pension Scheme funds to provide information for the pensions dashboards, with a delay that could take up to three years.

A cap on exit payments for public servants could be in place as soon as the end of the year after the Treasury laid down draft regulations in July, but it may have serious consequences for local authority pensions.

Scottish Widows has aligned a chunk of its pension portfolios with the transition to a low-carbon economy, as the integration of environmental, social and governance factors emerges as a competitive driver in the commercial defined contribution sector.