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Textiles company AW Hainsworth has secured a buyout for its defined benefit pension scheme in a deal worth £2.3m.

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is aiming to raise £1m from its voluntary levy on pension schemes for the 2020/21 financial year, according to its draft annual budget.

Auto-enrolment master trust Nest has invested in an “environmentally aware” cash fund run by BlackRock as it steps up its climate change investment policy.

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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has set out new rules for cost disclosure for contract-based pension schemes, with default funds now required to publish cost and charges data by 31 July 2021, based on 2020 figures.

Every month, several firms issue trackers of the aggregate defined benefit (DB) scheme funding position. See here for the February 2020 estimates on the various measures…

BNY Mellon Investment Management has expanded its sustainable offering with the launch of an absolute return global bond fund under the management of boutique Newton Investment Management.

Link Fund Solutions has written to investors to announce that the LF ASI Income Focus fund (formerly the LF Woodford Income Focus fund) will reopen on 13 February.

Investors in the LF Equity Income fund, formerly run by Neil Woodford, will receive 75.55% of the value of the assets of the fund in the first capital distribution, priced between 46p and 59p per unit they hold, Link Fund Solutions has said.