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In the second of PP's Pensions In-Depth Interviews, Sebastian Cheek talks to Telegraph Media Group pensions manager James Churcher about the Investment Governance Group and DC governance

Society of Pension Consultants president elect Kevin LeGrand, Barnett Waddingham senior partner Adrian Waddingham and BESTrustees chairman Alan Pickering have all agreed to join a new PP Pensions Commission.

Emma Dunkley previews the April 15 edition of Professional Pensions.

Follow all the pensions news and opinion in the run up to this year's poll on May 6.

Friends Provident chief executive Trevor Matthews was today unveiled as chairman of the re-licensed Financial Services Skills Council.

Steve Bee - the former Head of Pensions at Prudential and pension strategist at Royal London - has updated his list of ministerial teams who have steered pensions policy since Labour came to power.

The Conservatives have unveiled their 2010 election manifesto - outlining plans to "reinvigorate" occupational pensions.

A Labour manifesto commitment to increase the basic state pension in line with earnings from 2012 will cost £2bn a year by the end of the next parliament, Towers Watson warns.

The Labour Party has unveiled its 2010 election manifesto - but has failed to make any new promises on pensions.

Retirees aged below the new minimum pension age of 55 and in drawdown could face adverse tax charges if they want to annuitise or switch provider, Scottish Life warns.