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The Chancellor's plans to bring forward the implementation of the single tier state pension from 2017 to 2016 will accelerate the decline of defined benefit schemes, experts warn.

The Pensions Advisory Service chief executive Marta Phillips OBE will step down from her role in the summer.

Defined contribution schemes have serious defects which must be tackled by employers, government and the pensions industry to help address the nation's ageing population, an influential House of Lords committee warns.

Pensions Policy Institute director Niki Cleal will step down from her role after seven years in the position.

Total bulk annuity business in by the end of 2012 was £4.4bn, compared to £5.2bn in 2011, Aon Hewitt research shows.

Zurich has launched a master trust to compete in the auto-enrolment space.

Cookson Group (now Vesuvius) has hired Premier as third party administrator for its £500m defined benefit scheme.

The Pension Protection Fund has hired Barry Kenneth as its chief investment officer after it announced it may bring investment in-house from 2015.