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PARLIAMENT will be responsible for the extinction of defined benefit type pension arrangements unless conditional indexing is included in the Pensions Bill, the Association of Consulting Actuaries warns.

NETWORK RAIL has launched a career average revalued earnings option for its 34,000 employees.

Regulations critical to implementing the revamped Local Government Pension Scheme in April will be laid before parliament after a delay of almost 12 months.

Two new local government pension schemes have joined the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum taking its membership to 46 funds.

The Pensions Advisory Service received a record 1020 calls to its women's helpline on the first day of operation.

The Pensions Bill is a wasted opportunity to cut red tape and halt the "alarming decline" of final salary schemes, the Conservatives claim.

Trustees have created a surge in demand for buyout advice as part of risk management plans, Lane Clark & Peacock says.

Scheme wind-up victim campaigners are "astonished" ministers are considering an appeal following another verdict against them.

The California Public Employees' Retirement System has unveiled two customer service enhancements for its members.

Nearly half of FTSE100 companies with defined benefit pensions changed their mortality assumptions last year, research by Watson Wyatt shows.