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LEBC Group has launched a national advice-based retirement service, The Retirement Adviser, in a bid to enter the at retirement market.

Hymans Robertson has appointed London Pensions Fund Authority chief executive Mike Taylor to the supervisory board of its longevity research firm Club Vita, which will be formally launched today.

ANTHONY HODGES CONSULTING has launched a programme designed to help trustees become more business minded.

A FURTHER five defined benefit pension schemes entered into the Pension Protection Fund last month, resulting in an additional 1313 people around the UK receiving compensation.

THE Association of Member-Directed Pensions Schemes has announced its committee for the forthcoming year following its annual general meeting.

INVESTORS are better off saving for their retirement by depositing money into savings accounts than investing in occupational pension schemes, Ros Altmann warns.

THE aggregate funding position of the 7800 defined benefit funds monitored by the Pension Protection Fund worsened by £17bn in October, the lifeboat fund says.

GERMANY - The German government is considering legislation that would make it more difficult for stealth takeovers such as Porsche SE's acquisition of shares in Volkswagen AG, the Finance Ministry said.

Regulation will be high on the government's agenda following the credit crisis which hit global markets through-out September and October, Friends Provident says.

The John Lewis Partnership has transferred its 29pc share in online supermarket Ocado to its pension fund.