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MORE then half of independent financial advisers are unsure how recent Financial Services Authority regulation affects self-invested personal pensions, a survey by Merchant Investors shows.

INCREASES in life expectancy assumptions have added £13bn to FTSE350 scheme liabilities over the past year, research by Mercer Human Resource Consulting shows.

XAFINITY Paymaster has teamed up with the Pensions Management Institute to launch a research project on the trustee decision-making process.

Almost two-thirds of people have no idea how much their pensions are worth, research claims.

A SECOND wave of final salary schemes will close as firms decide to reduce business risk, senior actuaries warn.

FIRMS are increasingly looking at alternatives to cash funding as deficits move into surpluses, PricewaterhouseCoopers says.

Overwhelming vote sees Boots taken over by private equity; Reforms may lead to ‘retirement apartheid'

CHRIS Hitchen has formally been inaugurated as chairman of the National Association of Pension Funds.

UK - A survey has highlighted the risks associated with the Government's new system of personal accounts when they are introduced in 2012.