On the go: October has seen the biggest rise in defined benefit transfer values in over a year, with a growth of 3.6 per cent over the month.

On the go: More than 1m gig economy workers in such companies as Uber and Deliveroo may soon have more employment rights.

On the go: The Treasury Select Committee has today launched a new inquiry into vulnerable consumers’ access to financial services.

On the go: Master trusts have been slow off the mark to obtain authorisation from the Pensions Regulator. They have a six-month window from 1 October to gain approval. Since then only one master trust has applied.

On the go: Since the introduction of the pension freedoms in 2015, the Financial Ombudsman Service has received fewer than 15,000 complaints involving pensions. Of this figure, just 1,700 have been about pension freedoms and around 300 of these complaints were about defined benefit transfers.

On the go: An industry group has been set up to work on implementing, promoting and encouraging the use of new cost transparency templates across the pensions and investment industries, with the aim of encouraging more consistent disclosure of costs.

On the go: Self-employed workers want government help to save for retirement and would back new laws to expand auto-enrolment or to make saving for retirement compulsory, new research from Prudential shows.

On the go: Forty per cent of employed 46 to 55-year-olds do not know how much they have saved for retirement, a recent survey has found.

On the go: The Occupational Pensions Defence Union has launched a pensions trustee policy aimed at individual independent trustees in the UK.