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Roche Products Pension Trust Limited has appointed Mercer as the fiduciary manager for the pharmaceutical firm's £500m UK defined benefit scheme.

The UK economy shrank by 0.7% in the second quarter of the year, a far worse contraction than economists had forecast, keeping the UK mired in recession.

Dalriada Trustees has launched a High Court action against three investment companies and two former trustees in a bid to recover £18m of assets invested in two alleged pension liberation schemes.

Labour's pensions spokesman on how to restore trust in pensions

ISS UK has appointed Now:Pensions to provide an auto-enrolment scheme for its workforce from its staging date of January 2013.

The Royal Bank of Scotland has become the first UK company to auto-enrol its workforce under the government's requirements, with 40% of newly enrolled members choosing to opt out.

The National Employment Savings Trust has ended its first ten months in operation with less money in its fund accounts than were made in initial contributions, after one member died and contribution charges ate into member pots.

The overwhelming majority of pension professionals surveyed by PP supported calls for a single regulator to oversee all workplace pension schemes.

The principles that represent the “minimum standard” for enhanced transfer exercises

The government must consider regulating independent trustees to prevent another scandal like the £52m GP Noble fraud, lawyers say.