The effectiveness of independent governance committees has come under the spotlight in the Work & Pensions Committee’s hearing on pension costs and transparency inquiry, with the bodies blasted for lacking information.

On the go: Women’s pay has been edging up at the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) but the median gender pay gap is still a shocking 17.2 per cent, a drop of three percentage points from last year (20.4 per cent in 2017).

On the go: The Pension Protection Fund has confirmed new compensation cap limits.

On the go: Only eight master trusts have applied for authorisation with the Pensions Regulator, leading to expectations that there will be a last minute dash as the March 31 deadline looms.

One the go: Bradford-based accounts manager Mansoor Nasir, who tried to hide the fact that restaurants had not given their staff workplace pensions, has been fined £5,000.

On the go: Master trust Nest inviting tenders from fund managers to run an actively managed global investment grade corporate bond fund.

The Department for Work and Pensions is ramping up the pressure on small schemes to consolidate and to consider long term illiquid investments.

On the go: The Pensions Regulator has confirmed today that Now Pensions has overhauled its administration system.

On the go: January saw a significant in improvement in the funding level of the UK’s 5,450 defined benefit pension schemes.