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• Keep it simple  ‘Complex’ is a word of gentle understatement where the regulations for occupational pension schemes are concerned. Peter Thompson, NAPF Chairman, welcomes the initiatives set up by the Government to simplify them

• Pensions for partners It’s high time for widespread recognition of unmarried partners in occupational pension schemes, suggests James Thomas.

• OPAS: help yourself Rather than shrieking with dismay, disputing parties should welcome OPAS’s involvement, suggests Jo Whiterod.

• Join the chattering classes They say talk is cheap. Where pension schemes are concerned, David Butcher disagrees

• Home or away With moves to raise standards and create industry norms, third party administration could be as attractive as a beach full of bronzed Australians. Allison Plager takes a stroll down Yabbie Creek.

• I audit through the grapevine Marvin Gaye was always a big fan of maintaining internal controls in outsourced pensions administration. Nick Wheeler sings its praises.

• Recognising reality Martin Troy takes a look at the Trustee Act 2000, a call for trustees’ duties to reflect the modern reality of trusts.

• By all accounts The implications of Financial Reporting Standard 17 are considered by Teresa Sienkiewicz.

• The joy of index Andrew Wise envisages, without the visual aid of a hairy naked man, a more utopian pensions future with LPI bonds.