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Members of the BT Pension Scheme (BTPS) will have their defined benefit (DB) pensions protected following the separation of the Openreach business.

The relationship between consultants and trustees must become more candid and challenging if real improvements are to be made, according to Redington director of strategy Paul Richards.

If industry-led initiatives to tackle cost transparency do not stand up to scrutiny the FCA will look to regulate.

The industry must change its mind-set that consolidation of defined benefit (DB) funds is too difficult, according to DB Taskforce chairman Ashok Gupta.

The potential merger between Aberdeen Asset Management and Standard Life will give the combined firm the scale to compete effectively in the US.

MP Frank Field has written to the regulator seeking more detail on the benefits secured for British Home Stores (BHS) pension scheme members from the deal struck with Sir Philip Green.

MPs are probing a deal agreed for General Motors' (GM) UK defined benefit schemes just days after the car manufacturing giant announced the sale of its European assets including Vauxhall.

Patrick Marshall, head of Private Debt & CLOs at Hermes Investment Management, sets out the case for why institutional investors should consider direct lending in their search for alternative yield

Defined benefit (DB) transfer values reached their highest level since early November 2016 due to a fall in gilt yields and more bearish inflation expectations.

The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has advocated a "full merger" of defined benefit (DB) schemes which splits employers from their burgeoning obligations.